To The King's Taste

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated boards. Near fine. 144 pages. 22 x 12.5 cm. "All but a few of the recipes in this book are from the Forme of Cury (Manner of Cook-manuscript recipes in Middle English). Written about 1390 at the request of King Richard II, 'the best and royalist viander of all Christian kings.' Many of the hundred and ninety-six recipes in the Forme of Cury reveal the lust for grandeur and exoticism characteristic of Richard's court." Designed by Peter Oldenburg, Composed and printed by The Stinehour Press. Illustrated throughout. Interior crisp and clean, boards very lightly soiled.