8vo. vi, 137, [1], 4pp. Modern red cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Light staining to spine. Leaves lightly browned, light staining throughout.

The first edition of English writer and translator Abraham Hayward's (1801-1884) popular collection of gastronomical essays, of which many were originally published in the New Monthly, the Foreign Quarterly, the Quarterly Review, or the Edinburgh Review.