London: Cape. Bound in immaculate green cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 2002 hardcocer First Edition is Fine in Fine dustjacket(unclipped). Signed by author on title page without inscription. XV111/349pp with Preface, 6 Chapters, Postscript, Notes & Sources, Numerous Illustrations and Index. Condition as new! . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2002.

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Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guests in ancient Greece to the restrained rigors of the Victorian dinner party. Sir Roy Strong examines this cultural phenomenon with knowledge, wit, and style-beginning with the ninth century B.C., when a Babylonian emperor discreetly invited seventy thousand guests for a ten-day celebration, and ending early in the twentieth century, by which time feasts had become somewhat more modest. Always attuned to how these celebrations mirror the societies that hold them and to the way they reflect shifts in power and class, this beautifully illustrated book offers a lively and illuminating history of grand eating. .

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Bookseller: Camillas Bookshop (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0020335
Title: FEAST: A HISTORY OF GRAND EATING
Author: Strong, Roy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0224061380
ISBN 13: 9780224061384
Publisher: Cape
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: Signed Roy Strong:"FEAST"1st Edition Fine
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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