Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WARNER, RICHARD. Antiquitates Culinariae; or, Curious Tracts relating to the Culinary Affairs of the Old English. Tinted aquatint frontispiece ("A Saxon Entertainment") and double-page plate ("The Peacock Feast"). [2], lx, 137 pages, including engraved title. 4to, early 19th-century 1/2 roan gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, endpapers renewed; minor marginal browning on a few preliminary leaves. London: R. Blamire, 1791
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first edition; with the "Peacock Feast" plate, which was removed from unsold copies because of a copyright dispute. Bitting, page 458; Cagle 1049; Oxford, page 120; Vicaire 873-74.