MILL, John Stuart - CRAWFORD, Frances.

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French Cookery Adapted for English Families. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "a M. John Stuart Mill, Miss Crawford"; a germane association of a cookbook written for "lovers of the gastronomic art" (p. v) given Mill's "condemnatory classification of the pleasures of food as lower pleasures" (Telfer, p. 116), a distinction between mental and physical gratification which Mill discusses in Utilitarianism (1863).A self-professed Francophile, "Mill gained a fluency in French that made him a leading British authority on French life and politics. He always felt comfortable in France and spent a good deal of vacation time there. As he would express it in a letter to Harriet in 1854, 'any place in France if it be ever so far off seems so much a home to us'. He and Harriet had hoped to retire to France, and both of them are buried in Avignon" (Capaldi, p. 32). In February 1905 the Avignon household was liquidated; this copy was sold as part of the sale of the majority of Mill's library, and the Mill-Taylor archive, in May of that year.Little is known of Frances Crawford, except that she also wrote French Confectionary Adapted for English Families, published the same year as French Cookery; the two are often found bound together and were issued as one volume in later editions. Both were very popular publications. French Cookery preserves the titles of dishes in French, but aims to render the recipes simply so as to be useful to "both to the rich and the more hum

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