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DUBOIS, Urbain (1818-1901).

Lot 87
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Lot 87 | DUBOIS, Urbain (1818-1901).
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DUBOIS, Urbain (1818-1901).

Artistic Cookery. A Practical System Suited for the Use of the Nobility and Gentry and for Public Entertainments. Londres: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870.

Édition originale : elle est parue en anglais, deux ans avant l’édition française.



Urbain Dubois, auteur notamment de la Cuisine de tous les pays (Dentu, 1868, cf. le lot précédent), fut chef de cuisine de plusieurs grandes maisons, en France comme à l’étranger. Il fut notamment, pendant plus de vingt ans, cuisinier du roi de Prusse Guillaume Ier et de sa femme Augusta, à qui l’Artistic Cookery est dédié. Distinguant dans un premier temps le « Service à la française » du « Service à la russe », Dubois détaille ensuite plus de 80 menus de dîners, banquets et bals ayant réellement été donnés. Il détaille les recettes proprement dites et la façon de les servir. L'ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses planches hors texte, montrant en particulier le dressage des plats ; l’invention et l’exubérance en sont parfois telles, que Dubois prend soin de préciser, dans sa préface : « In examining the ornamental subjects contained in this collection, many persons may be inclined to suppose, that they are simply sketches proceeding from the pencil of an artist of a capricious imagination ; and it is to provide against this erroneous interpretation, that I think it necessary to inform my readers, that the greater number of these pieces were executed […] This being the case, the designs may be considered as actual documents, and not as problems yet waiting to be solved… » (p. VIII). Bitting, 131.



Fort in-4 (310 x 232 mm). Illustré de 80 planches gravées hors texte, dont le frontispice, un portrait en médaillon de Guillaume Ier et Augusta de Prusse, et 78 planches finement gravées représentant 337 sujets. Reliure de l'éditeur : percaline brune, encadrement à froid sur les plats, dos lisse avec le titre doré (coiffes, mors et coins frottés).



First edition, preserved in publisher’s cloth.

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