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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 drawings from nature by E. Ronjat.

Jules Gouffé, Gouffé, Alphonse, University of Leeds Libraries · 1883 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. · 124 pictures

An English translation by Alphonse Gouffé of Jules Gouffé's Le livre de cuisine, issued in London by Sampson Low in 1883 for household and professional cooks. The 161 woodcuts after E. Ronjat's drawings from nature show moulded puddings, pans, timbales and dressed dishes as isolated objects on cast shadows, dense hatching giving form to metal, pastry and jelly.

Cooking, French

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain)