BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean-Anthelme). Physiology of taste. Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, s.d. [1848]. Large in-8, green half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (V. Champs). First illustrated edition, preceded by a biographical note by Alphonse Karr. First edition of Bertall's attractive illustration, consisting of a portrait of the author and seven plates on chine collé steel-engraved by Geoffroy and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text by Midderish. A very fine copy. Carteret, III, 108.