The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) / by Jules Gouffé ; translated from the French and adapted for English use by Alphonse Gouffé ... comprising domestic and high-class cookery, illustrated with sixteen large plates printed in colours, and one hundred and sixty-one woodcuts from drawing from nature by E. Ronjat.
Jules Gouffé's Le livre de cuisine, translated by his brother Alphonse and issued in London by Sampson Low in 1868 for English households and professional kitchens, with 161 woodcuts after E. Ronjat's drawings from nature. The cuts show single dishes on plain platters — roast joints, trussed poultry, raised pies, moulded puddings — modelled in close hatching against blank ground, easy to cut out as spot illustrations.
