The Improved Housewife. Or Book of Receipts: with Engravings for Marketing and Carving... Eleventh edition, revised: with supplement and perpetual calendar.
Hartford: Sold by Ira Webster…; [Stereotyped by Richard H. Hobbs, 1848. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), xi, 12-236 pages. Frontispiece, plus folding, hand-colored plate. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text. Though styled “Eleventh Edition” on the title page, this is evidently the FIRST EDITION, likely 12th or 13th printing. Likely the second appearance with the color calendar (Lowenstein first indicates the color illustration in the “Twelfth Edition” of 1850). As.....