Murphy's Pets: fifty recipes for cooking potatoes. Compiled By Mrs. De Witt C. Owen.
Dixon, Ill. Star Job Printing Rooms, [circa 1899]. Cord-bound booklet (15 x 12 cm.), 16 pages. Privately published. Evident FIRST EDITION. A collection of potato recipes, another in the series of charming self-published cookbooks produced under the name "Mrs. De Witt C. Owen". The author, Ella "Nellie" Upton Leighton, was born in Steuben, Maine, and adopted into the Leighton family. Her husband, Dewitt Clinton Owen was a newspaperman, owner of.....