Practical Housekeeping : a Careful Compilation of Tried and Approved Recipes. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Thousand.
Minneapolis, Minn. Buckeye Publishing Company, 1886. Thick octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 688 pages. Index. Illustrated with in-text engravings throughout and frontispiece. Publisher’s advertisements. All edges red. "Two hundred thousandth". The copyright page indicates that this "book is a revised and enlarged edition of Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping." In its origins a community cookbook, as well as a voluminous housekeeping reference, with a convoluted bibliographic history. The stirrings of.....