Le Caveau Moderne, ou le Rocher de Cancalle, Chansonnier de Table, compose des meilleures Chansons de l'ancien Caveau, des Diners du Vaudeville, de la Societe Epicurienne, dites des Gourmands, etc. Par les Auteurs du Journal

      Paris: au Bureau du Journal des Gourmands, Chez Capelle et Renand, 1807. (BACCHANALIAN CHANTS) Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 16mo. Engraved frontispiece by Mariage after Fontaine, engraved sheet of music following p. 192, two pages publisher's advertisements for "Petite Encyclopedie Poetique" following the title, 15 pages publisher's advertisements at back. 322 pp. Nineteenth-century green morocco-backed marbled boards.Contemporary owner name at foot of title. Green faded to brown, some rubbing, generally light, some browning and spotting, mostly at the front and back, about very good. Vicaire 157 . Attractive copy of the second edition of this work, issued barely three months after the first appeared. This first volume in a serial published from 1807 through 1817 includes two typographic poems on pages 238-239, in the form of a glass and a bottle. The songs range from respectful to satirical and touch upon all manner of culinary topics. The principal editor at this time of the Journal des Gourmands and des Belles was A. B. L. Grimod de la Reyniere, the father of gastronomic writing, author of "Manuel des Amphitryons" and the "Almanachs des Gourmands"