Menu scrapbook, Belgian 1906-1922
Belgium: 1906.
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition. Item #CAT000681
ISBN: NoISBN
Menu scrapbook in an oblong contemporary cloth binding. hinge slightly cracked, with 50 thick paper inserts each with 2 or 3 menus and a few loose menus. A few event programs and menus, 1 restaurant insert, but otherwise all printed or manuscript private dinner party menus. The menus are in chronological order beginning in 1906 and running to April 1914 and picking up in 1920 after the War with just a few less elaborate menus and ending in 1922.
Collected by Madame Ambroise Delacre (listed under Belgian amateur photographers), wife of pharmacist Benjamin Joseph Delacre who was the son of pharmacist, chocolatier and biscuit maker, Charles Delacre who founded the eponymous biscuit company in 1891. One menu has Charles' name on it - a really charming look at the dinner party life of the haute bourgeoisie during the Belle Époque and right after World War I. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000681.
Price: $1,200.00