Boston: Columbia Engraving Company, 1899. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 184 pages. Advertisements. Index. Second Edition. An earlier edition, without mention of Newtonville in the title, was published by the Central Congregational Church in 1890. An ambitious charitable cookbook of nearly eight hundred recipes, for the most part brief and unattributed, published in the year of the Church's incorporation as an independent congregation. A work, too, of intentional comprehensiveness, with.....

Pittsfield, Mass. [The Church]; Chickering & Axtell, Steam Printers, 1877. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 87, [i] pages. Advertisements. Cover title: Cook Book. FIRST EDITION. An attractively printed church cookbook from the seat of Berkshire County in the westernmost region of Massachusetts, with some three hundred fifty unattributed recipes. Warranting notice: Black Bean Soup, Onion Pie, Vegetable Plum Pudding, (Baked) Raspberry Sandwich, Whortleberry Cake, Rice Meringue, Brandy Peaches, and Blackberry.....

Lafayette, Ala. The Church, 1921. Octavo (22.5 x 15 cm.), 44, [xvi] pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook, with more than 250 recipes, many attributed. Most entries adhere to the reliable conventions promised by the title, but there are also such glimpses of the geography as Pecan Cake (requiring two and a quarter pounds of pecans), a custardy Burnt Almond Cream, Banana Fritters, and Squash.....

[Raynham, Mass.]: [The Church], [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet, (18.75 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements throughout. Title from cover. Identification of church surmised from photo-reproduction on cover. Date of publication proposed from internal evidence. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Tentatively identified community recipe collection of modest proportions, with some two hundred brief entries solicited from acquaintances in both Bristol County and around the nation. Recipes include: Maryland Beat Biscuits (from Baltimore).....

[Newburyport]: Newburyport Commercial Press, 1927. Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 58, [i] pages. Advertisements interspersed. Title from cover. Additional title (page [1]): Tested, Tried, and True. "This book is issued for the benefit of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Oldtown Parish, First Church, Newbury"–page [1]. ~ FIRST EDITION. A church collection with nearly two hundred recipes, the majority attributed. The family of the pastor, Charles Sumner Holton (1866-1939).....

Somerville; Boston: The Church; Printed by F. J. Barnard], 1879. Octavo (23.75 x 15 cm.), [54] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Title from cover. Author from prefatory note "With Our Readers" on page [3]. Printer from advertisement on page [54]. Alternate title within prefatory note: Peoples' Receipt Book and Business Directory. Evident FIRST EDITION. A charitable cookbook that foregrounds local business advertisements (rather than recipes) as a "directory" – a misleading.....

Salinas, California: [The Church; Printed by] E. H. Green, Printer, 1902. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 382, [x] pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Advertisements. Cover title: 20th Century Cook Book. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with approximately four hundred recipes, from a region famous for its root and vine vegetables, its farm produce, as well as its long-established Mexican and Asian communities. Among items of note.....

Utica, N.Y. Converse & Co., Job Printers, 38 Arcade, 1884. Octavo (20.8 x 13.7 cm.), 49, [3] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A slim but very enjoyable community cookbook, issued by a woman's church group from Utica, in Central New York State. The recipes, in narrative form, are often but not always attributed. Most pleasing is the array of typefaces used throughout, in the recipe titles and especially in the advertisements.....

Haverhill, MA: Steam Press of Chase Bros., 22 Washington Square, 1882. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 136, [6], pages. Advertisements. Index. Title page printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of a new meeting house in 1882. With approximately five hundred recipes, many of them attributed. Representative entries: Bean Porridge, Oyster Stew, Shaker Codfish, Chicken Curry with Rice, Potted Pigeons.....

Washingtonville; Newburgh: [the society; Newburgh Journal Print], 1889. Octavo, stapled in cloth-backed wrapper (20 x 14 cm.), 62, [1] pages. Advertisements front and rear. Printer information from wrapper. Second Edition, Revised, following the original publication of 1880. A community cookbook from the Orange County, N.Y. hamlet of Washingtonville, with recipes in narrative form and mostly attributed. The advertisements, mostly for businesses in the larger towns of Newburgh or Middletown, are.....

Soda Springs: The Church/[Hildreth Printing], 1930. Small octavo-sized stapled book (18.5 x 14 cm.), 72, [iii] pages. Advertisements. "Index" is a table of contents. Title from header running throughout; cover title: Cook Book. Statement of attribution from cover. FIRST EDITION. A previously undocumented church cookbook with a version of goulash described as "Danish" and an end-of-harvest green tomato sauce oddly identified as "Soy" – though the majority of the two.....

North Vernon, Indiana: North Vernon Plain Dealer, Book & Job Printers, 1906. Octavo (22.3 x 15.3 cm.), 193 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A second edition was issued in 1926. A church cookbook with recipes in narrative form. Many of the recipes are attributed. Very scarce. [OCLC locates one copy (Indiana State Library); Cook, page 74; not in Brown; a single copy of the second edition of 1926 resides at Kansas.....

[Chelsea, Mass.]: The Church, 1909. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [17] pages. Title and statement of responsibility from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A church collection of one hundred seventy-five brief recipes, half of them attributed, gathered (in all likelihood) in support of a rebuilding project. A great many standards–Spice Cakes, Sally Lunns, Hermits, Cabbage Salad, Piccalilli–occasionally interrupted by a eyebrow-raising novelty: Bread Sandwiches (exactly what they sound like, bread.....