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FRANCATELLI, Charles Elmé.

The Royal English and Foreign Confectioner:

The Royal English and Foreign Confectioner:

A practical treatise on the art of confectionary in all its branches; comprising ornamental confectionary artistically developed... also, the art of ice-making, and the arrangement and general economy of fashionable desserts.

Stock Code 111822

London, Chapman and Hall, 1862

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The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805-1876). With over 800 recipes from jellies and jams to wedding cakes, including the classic sponge.

With provenance for the American cookware engineer Carl Sontheimer (1914-1998), best known for inventing the Cuisinart food processor.

First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm); bookplate to front pastedown, numerous chromo-lithographs including frontispiece, 18pp publisher's ads to rear, top-edges occasionally unopened, tear into text of p.xxiii, rear ads with a few tears and pp ads11-14 conjoined; publisher's purple blindstamped cloth, gilt centre-piece, spine lettered in gilt, edges a little worn, a little spotting to half-title and title, otherwise very good; xxvii, [1], 422, 18pp.

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Provenance: Sontheimer Foundation (bookplate).

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