The Cook's Own Book. An American Family Cook Book ; Containing more than twenty-five hundred receipts, for cooking every kind of meat, fish, and fowl, and making of soups, gravies, pastry, preserves and essences: together with a complete system of confectionery. Miss Leslie's Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, the Art of Carving, etc., etc. By A Boston Housekeeper.
New York; Boston: James Miller, Publisher, 779 Broadway; [copyright H.M. Francis, 1864]. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), xlviii, 300, 37 pages. Printed in two columns. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and five tipped-in plates. Engraved line drawings throughout the text of the carving section. FIRST EDITION, thirteenth printing (after Cagle). Originally published by Munroe & Francis in 1832 under the title The Cook's Own Book; the following year the work.....