Home Dissertations: an offering to the household for economical and practical skill in cookery, orderly domestic management, and nicety in the appointments of home : excerpts from favorite authors.
New York: Hunter & Beach, Publishers, 1886, ©1885. Quarto (24 x 20 cm.), 174 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements on plates, tipped-in separately throughout. Evident FIRST EDITION, later printing. Two printings were issued in 1885 by J.H. Magruder in Washington D.C. and by H. Jevne in Los Angeles. Between 1885 and 1891, eight printings were issued by seven different publishers in seven cities. A promotional cookbook of Victorian style, apparently intended to.....