The Improved Housewife. Or Book of Receipts: with Engravings for Marketing and Carving... Twentieth Edition, revised : with supplement and perpetual calendar.
Hartford: Ira Webster, 1854. Octavo, xi, 12-236 pages. Frontispiece, plus folding, hand-colored plate. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. First edition, likely 14th or 15th printing, although styled the Twentieth Edition on title page. "Mrs. Webster was at best, what one would call a good plain cook, and yet she too reflects some of the virtues of her time", writes Karen Hess, who stops to point out that up to.....