MÉNAGIER DE PARIS (Le): A Treatise on Morality and Domestic Economy. Paris, Crapelet, 1846. 2 volumes in-8 bound, contemporary red half-basin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, combed edges. This is the first edition of the most important culinary book to have survived from the Middle Ages. This treatise on morality and domestic economy was written around 1393 for his very young wife by a middle-class Parisian, possibly a royal officer. It compiles 409 recipes, around a hundred of which are adapted from Taillevent's Viandier, and are remarkable for the detail of their preparation. The series of menus is without equal in medieval culinary literature. Limited edition of 324 copies on Hollande paper. Illustrated with a woodcut at the head of the text in the first volume (p. 9) and an hors-texte plate in the second (p. 279). A fine copy. Laurioux, Le Règne de Taillevent, 1997, (pp. 117-158). Vicaire, 583-587; Cagle, 333; Livres en bouche, n° 20; Bitting, 578.