Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title (misbound), 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, portrait spotted and offsetting onto to title, additional title little spotted, small repair to lower blank corner of advrtisment f., contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (with a number 7 at head of spine),[Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John LyleG. Routledge & Co., 1857.
Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title (misbound), 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, portrait spotted and offsetting onto to title, additional title little spotted, small repair to lower blank corner of advrtisment f., contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (with a number 7 at head of spine),[Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2) ⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John LyleG. Routledge & Co., 1857.
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