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The physiology of taste, or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy = Physiologie du goût, ou, Méditations de gastronomie transcendante

Title
The physiology of taste, or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy = Physiologie du goût, ou, Méditations de gastronomie transcendante / by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ; translated from the French by M.F.K. Fisher ; with drawings and color lithographs by Wayne Thiebaud.
Author
Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Publication
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1994.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-
  • Thiebaud, Wayne
  • Trillium Graphics, printer of plates.
  • Arion Press, printer.
Description
355 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.); 36 cm.
Uniform Title
Physiologie du goût. English
Alternative Title
  • Physiologie du goût.
  • Physiology of taste
  • Meditations on transcendental gastronomy
  • Physiologie du goût
  • Méditations de gastronomie transcendante
Subject
Gastronomy
Note
  • "The forty-fourth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
  • Illustrations: 9 prints : lithograph, col. ; full-page. Printed at Trillium Graphics by David Salgado and Mark Field. -- ca. 200 photomechanical prints : reproduction of drawings ; various sizes.
  • Binding: Publisher's grayish blue cloth, illustrated with reproductions of drawings by Thiebaud, printed lithographically at Trillium Graphics. Issued in slipcase.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 1994 00-126
LCCN
94228969
OCLC
138308049
Author
Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Title
The physiology of taste, or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy = Physiologie du goût, ou, Méditations de gastronomie transcendante / by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ; translated from the French by M.F.K. Fisher ; with drawings and color lithographs by Wayne Thiebaud.
Imprint
San Francisco : Arion Press, 1994.
Local Note
226 copies printed on French mouldmade Lana Royale paper from Monotype Neo Didot and handset Bodoni Bold types, of which 200 numbered copies were offered for sale. No. 113; signed in pencil by the artist on half-title leaf.
Prospectus ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.) laid in.
Added Author
Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-
Thiebaud, Wayne, lithographer.
Trillium Graphics, printer of plates.
Arion Press, printer.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Amer. 1994 00-126
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