Reprints of Old German Cookery Books

The author is working on a bibliography of German cookery books, and also on one covering books on cookery published in Britain between 1800 and 1870 (the latter to be published by Prospect Books). She has compiled the following list as a sequel to the general list of reprints which Mark Cerniavsky provided for our readers in PPC 3. The PPC 3 article dealt only with books in English or French, and we promised at the time to follow it up with corresponding lists for other languages. That German should come next is highly appropriate, since there is a wealth of material and it has tended to receive less attention from collectors and scholars than the corresponding books in English, French and Italian. It is also pertinent that the business of reproducing old cookery books has been booming in Germany for some time, as the length of the list which follows demonstrates. At our request, the author has included brief comments on the books, so that readers who do not understand German will have some guidance on why particular books in the list are of interest. She has not covered, but may treat in a later article, reprints of 'gastrosophical' works, of bibliographical ones, of books on wines, beer, etc., or of manuscripts (with a few exceptions, which are themselves reprints of a printed edition of a manuscript). Where bibliographical details are lacking, e.g. data of publication or name of publisher, the lacunae are indicated by a question mark, or a question accompanied by an informed conjecture, in square brackets. Where, for example, the name of an author or the date of publication was not stated, but is known, the information is supplied in square brackets without a question mark. The spelling and punctuation of original titles etc. are reproduced as faithfully as possible; and this accounts, for example, for the use of =, the old form of hyphen, in some titles.