Not a cookbook — an antiquarian bookseller's catalogue of a hundred and sixteen uncommon books about food and drink, title stamped in gilt on tan laid wrappers. A list of things somebody else was selling, which has since become the more interesting object. Bibliographies of this kind are how you find out what was worth owning before the internet flattened everything.
Wrappers lightly age-toned and gently soiled, with a small brown spot near the top edge of the front and faint mottling at the lower right.
