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Lot 154
[COOKERY] Two nineteenth-century American cookbooks.
Includes A BOSTON HOUSEKEEPER [= LEE, MRS. N. K. M. and LESLIE, MISS ELIZA]. The Cook's Own Book. An American Family Cook Book; Containing More Than Twenty-Five Hundred Receipts... New York: James Miller, 1864. First edition, later printing. Publisher's green cloth, gilt stamped fork decoration to spine. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; xlviii, 300, 37, [1 blank] pp. chromolithographed frontispiece and three chromolithographed plates, illustrations in text. Spine ends softened, corners a bit bumped, a few small stains and scratches to boards, contents faintly toned.; together with CORSON, JULIETTE, and others. 600 Selected Recipes. Chicago: N.K. Fairbank and Co, 1892. Later green cloth, original chromolithographed front wrapper bound in. 131 pp. Staining and moderate wear to cloth, original wrapper with some creasing and staining, contents toned, a few old tape repairs to margins of index leaves, some clipped recipes tipped in.
An attractive copy of A Boston Housekeeper, the popular nineteenth century American cook book - a book so in demand that there were over a dozen printings between 1832 and 1865. Miss Leslie's seventy-five pastry and confectionery recipes were added to the text in 1833 and appear in all subsequent printings. The 600 Selected Recipes cookbook includes dishes by a veritable who's who of the day's cookbook authors, who were enlisted by N. K. Fairbank to help promote their new lard substitute Cottolene.
C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman
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