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4 2/8 in. x 5 5/8 in., half-title and title-page, with title printed in black letter, and the Pickering version of the Aldine anchor printer's mark on the title-page: [i]-xiv (introduction by Thomas Wright), [22]pp. of printed black letter text (of "The Tournament", and "The Feast"), preserving the old spellings; [24]pp. of notes on the text, including identifications of the dishes mentioned in the "Feast," and some short recipes in early English spellings, for a few of these dishes. Woodcut initial and two other early woodcut designs are reproduced as head & tail-pieces. Black morocco leather spine and sides with gilt-lettered titling, running vertically on the spine, within a gilt border, glazed, pink paper over boards. The outer covers show fading, wear to cover corners and edges; some tan-spotting present on the text pages, tanning to endpapers. Some lines from the "Feast" (which the notes help to explain): "Ther was meyts wel dight / Well sesoned to the right / Off rost and of sew: Ther was meyts be henen That were a maistre al to nenen / But sum I con yow. Ther was pestels in porra / And laduls in rorra / Ffor potage. And somm saduls in sewys / And mashefatts in mortrewys / Ffor the leefe.age. Ther was plente of alle To theym that were in halle / To lesse and to more / Ther was gryndulstones in gravy / And mylstones in mawmavy / And al this was thore. But yet lett thei for no costs / Ffor in cum mylne posts iii in a dishe / And bell clapurs in blawndisare / With a nobull cury / I for tho that ete no fissh. Ther come in jordans in jussall / Als red as any russall / Come ther among: And blobsterdis in white forre Was of a nobull curry / With spicery strong. Ther come these crustis in charlett As red as any scarlette / With ruban in rise: Certes of alle the festis That ever I saw in gestis / This may ber the prise. Ther was castrell in cambys / And capuls in cullys / With blandamets in dorde; The nedur lippe of a larke Was broght in a muk cart And set befor the lorde. Then come in stedis of Spayn / With the brute of Almayne / With palfrayes in paste: And dongestteks in doralle Was forsed wele with charcoll / But certes that was waste. Then come in the fruture / With a nobul savoure / With feterloks fried: And alle the cart whelis of Kent / With stonys of the payment / Fful wel were thei tried. Then come in a horse hed In the stid of French brede / With alle the riche hide: Now hade I not this seen / Sum of yow wold wene Fful lowde that I lyed. Ther come in the kydde Dressyd in a horse syde / That abyl was to lese: iii yron harows / And many whele barowes / In the stid of new chese." (From The Feest; pp. [17]-[20]). Seller Inventory # ABE-635569568
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