Choice Cookery.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1889. Thick duodecimo (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 316, [4] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes originally written for the pages of Harper's Bazaar. The book encourages a style of simple cookery, but contains more than a touch of luxury... just not extravagance. The recipes themselves, which include "reed birds in aspic", and "compote of pigeon", are written in full narrative, are.....