Hardcover. Tan cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board.

No 60 of 250 limited edition. Illustrated by Pierre Camin.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Jack founded the Midsummer House, Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

Hard Cover. (London: Frederick Muller, Ltd. 1938). 161 pages. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this copy being No 60.

Top edge gilt. Publisher’s cream buckram cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Hand-coloured decorations by Pierre Camin. In French. A book of food through the seasons and history. This book’s value lies within the extraordinary hand coloured prints by Pierre Camin whose painting now commands considerable prices. 

Pierre Camin , born on March 1, 1908 in Paris and died on May 12, 1996 in Nouan-le-Fuzelier in Loir-et-Cher, is a French designer and glassmaker .A student at the École Boulle , specializing in metalwork , he intended to pursue a career as a metal engraver. With his diploma in hand, he joined the design workshop of a renowned jeweler , Sandoz.

His encounter with Xavier Deraisme, a decorator at Coty , would change his career path. On the advice of his decorator, François Coty summoned the young artist to his château in Artigny and offered him an introductory course in glassmaking techniques and a job. The perfumer had just acquired a glassworks in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (renamed Duralex ) and wanted to integrate his own design studio into his company. Two other artists joined the Coty studio: Georges Delhomme, a graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs , and Fernand Guerycolas, from the Nancy School movement . Pierre Camin discovered the world of perfumery and a passion for working with glass, a passion he would never relinquish. In 1939, having been mobilized, he was forced to leave his position as artistic director at Coty to join the front. After the war, Pierre Camin founded the LCC (Lucienne Coudert Camin) design studio, named after his collaborator, a graduate of the École des Arts Décoratifs and a window dresser at Coty , who had followed him. She was responsible for the designs of boxes and packaging for perfume bottles. In the midst of a complicated divorce, Pierre Camin wanted to protect his copyrights, and until his remarriage, many of his designs were registered under his partner’s signature, Lucienne Coudert or L. Coudert. LCC Workshops collaborate with many fashion, perfume and cosmetics brands, including Sœurs Callot , Brisson, Bruyère, Ciro, De Riaz, Anny Blatt, Fernand Aubry, Lasegue, Lorenzy Palenca, Premet.