The Star Chamber Dinner Accounts, being some hitherto unpublished Accounts of Dinners provided for the Lords of the Privy Council in the Star Chamber, Westminster, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I of England

London: George Rainbird for the Wine and Food Society, 1959. Quarto (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), viii, 88 pages. Index; bibliography; illustrated with four facsimile plates of accounts. FIRST EDITION. "Hitherto unpublished accounts of dinners..." from Simon's personal collection of two hundred fifty Star Chamber dinner accounts he has chosen "the fifty from 1567 to 1605 which cover Shakespeare's life because of the added literary interest which they obviously possess for Shakespeare scholars." Simon has also included a few contemporary recipes "in order to give both scholars and mere gastronomes an idea of how the various foods listed in the Accounts were cooked, prepared and served to the Lords of the Privy Council when they dined in the Star Chamber." Fine in publisher's black cloth, titled in silver at the spine. In an unclipped dust jacket with slight edgewear to the head of the spine; near fine. [OCLC locates forty-six copies; Unzelmann, page 158].