The Art of Cookery, an Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With Some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others: Occasion'd Principally by the Title of a Book Publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Caelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain'd in that Book. To which is added, Horace's Art of Poetry, in Latin.
By the author of the Journey to London. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourble Beef Steak Club. (4.25" x 7.5") 1708.
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott. Full brown speckled calf with blindstamp frame to covers with fancy rule towards spine. Spine with five gilt rule bordered raised bands, gilt title on gilt rule bordered red leather to second compartment, gilt date at foot scraped? Prior owner's names to front free flyleaf.
Mounted engraved title and frontisportrait from a later [1720] edition. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Gilt date at foot appears to have been scraped off. First Authorized Edition (following two unauthorized) of this satire of Lister's edition of Apicius Coelius. William King, author of such classics as A Journey to London (another travesty of an earlier book by Lister), and The Art of Love (in imitation of Ovid), seems to have spent the best of his talents in spurious attacks on many of his better-known contemporaries.This particularly clever work parallels Horace's original Latin in The Art of Poetry with King's amusing English version The Art of Cookery. 475 We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookseller at gmail. Com, we may just have it!