The Epicure's Almanack: Eating and Drinking in Regency London: The Original 1815 Guidebook - Hardcover

Ralph Rylance

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712358617 ISBN 13: 9780712358613

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2012

Synopsis

The Epicure's Almanack A fully annotated edition of The Epicure's Almanack, or Guide to Good Living, a listing of more than 650 eating establishments, taverns, hotels, inns etc, in and around London, investigated and engagingly described by Ralph Roylance (1782 - 1834). It was never really emulated until 1968, when the Good Food Guide to London was first issued. Full description

About this title

Review:

London's first good food guide, appearing at a time when the word 'restaurant' had not entered common use. --The Times

About the Author:

Janet Ing Freeman is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London. Her previous books include (jointly with Arthur Freeman) John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century (Yale UP, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0712358617
• ISBN 13: 9780712358613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Janet Ing Freeman