New York: Farrar Strauss, 1947. Octavo, 208 pages. Illustrated by Henry J. Stahlhut. First edition. A "novel-plus-cookbook" created from a series of stories which appeared in Gourmet Magazine. Now a classic of food writing and a glimpse into Russian cooking. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Boston/New York: Lee & Shepard/Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875. Large octavo (22.5 x 18), 568 pages. Author information from the copyright page. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, drawn from various sources, including French, German and English cookbooks, as well as "written receipt-books of families famous both at the North and South for their savory cooking." The compiler, Elizabeth S. Miller, hails from Geneva, New York, and dedicates the book.....
London; Norwich: Marshall's School of Cookery; Robert Hayes, Ld. Rosebery House, Bream's Buildings; [Printed by Jarrold and Sons, Limited], [circa 1905]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 664, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "Revised Edition", and "Seventy-fifth thousand". Originally published in 1887 (though Bitting and Cagle state 1888) and now enlarged by about fifty percent. Light foxing throughout, hinges shaken, but text block sound. Adhesions to rear paste-down. Some light.....
London: Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street W.C. 2, 1927. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 160 pages. FIRST EDITION. A fine work on the acquisition of the best ingredients for fine dining, from the Director of the London Zoological Society's Aquarium. A good deal of emphasis is placed on the adventure experienced while pursuing quality ingredients. Four of the book's eight chapters are given over to fare of the sea, and the.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Small octavo, 223 pages. Later printing of the classic Italian dessert book, originally published in 1952. Contains "over 250 recipes for delectable desserts, confections, liqueurs, and other specialties..." Some age toning and light foxing to text block, otherwise very good in gray cloth, with a slightly dusty, unclipped dust jacket with a small smudge to the center of the front panel. Still.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.; Marshall's School of Cookery, [1887]. Octavo, 468, [24] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "twentieth thousand". The date is drawn from several advertisements at the rear. Cagle, which includes only a later edition, states that the first edition was 1888. Some slight edgewear to gilt-titled green cloth, otherwise very good. Previous owner's name and date, "1893" to title page. [Bitting, page 310; Cagle 856 (later.....
Woodstock, VT. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. (6 x 4.3 cm.), 89 pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 unnumbered copies. The first miniature from the press of Frank H. Teagle, Jr. With a preface on miniature books and a selection of cookie recipes, including Sugar Cookies, Corn Flake Macaroons, Pecan Puffs, Springerle and more. The authors hoped the tiny book would be carried in apron pockets, mimicking the entreaties of 19th.....
London: S.O. Beeton, 248, Strand, W.C.; Cox & Wyman, Printers, 1861. Thick, small octavo (17.5 x 11 cm.), xxxix, 1112 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and engraved title, and with additional twelve color plates and engravings in the text. FIRST EDITION, first issue in book form (with "18 Bouverie St." on the illustrated title page). Preceded by the very rare issue in twenty-four monthly parts, issued November 1859-1861. Perhaps.....
Kuala Lumpur: Published by the Y.W.C.A. of Malaya & Singapore; Printed by Caxton Press, Ltd. (KL), 1951. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), (x), 251 pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated with some text-figures and head-pieces; index & index to advertisers. Cover designed by Cherrie Williams. Stated sixth edition. An expatriot cookbook, containing many more"local" recipes than is normally found. There is indeed a preponderance of comforting recipes from the U.K., including Chile.....
London: Printed by T. B. [Thomas Bradyll] for the author, and are to be sold at his House in Hewes-Court in Black-Friers, 1682. Two works in one volume. Second separate dated title page, but pagination is continuous. Octavo (15.5 x 10 cm.), (16), 1-352, (2), 3-80, 1-32 pages. Collation: A-Ec8, 2A-2B8. Illustrated with one full page woodcut (Aa4). ~ FIRST EDITION. This issue has "chyrurgions" in line 11 and "cherry-vvine".....
London: Printed by T. Newcomb for S. Thomson, 1655. Quarto (17 x 11 cm.), 8, 296 pages; signatures: A-Pp4 (incorrectly numbered – skipping J & V – yet complete). Woodcut initials, and section ornaments. “Imprimatur” leaf from the Royal College of Surgeons facing title. ~ FIRST EDITION. A classic work on diet and nutrition, discussing the quality, use, and preparation of fish, fruit, dairy products, bread, meat, and the preparation.....
London: Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn, 1746. Duodecimo (19 x 15 cm.), xxxii, 398 pages; signatures: a12 b4 A1-Q12 R8. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Complete with the “imprimatur” leaf. Imprimatur from the Royal College of Surgeons on verso of title-leaf. ~ The Second and Final Edition (a reprint of the first edition was issued in 1846). A classic work on diet and nutrition, discussing the quality, use, and.....
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London: Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, in the Holloway-Lane, near Shoreditch, [circa 1685-88?]. Octavo (14.5 x 9.5cm.), [12], 96, 91-232, [6] pages; collation: A6, B-Q8, R2 (I3 signed I2). Sheet A/R should have had R1 and R2 as A7 and A8. It was wrongly imposed so that A5r and A6v were perfected by pages of R and vice versa. The error was corrected by pasting leaves from half another.....
London: For Richard Wilkin, 1714. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [16], 218, [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies, from a tasty “green-pease soop, without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth, for pickling.....
New York: Privately Printed; [printed by Rogers & Company], 1924. Octavo (20.5 x 14.5 cm.), 68, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION of this cub annual. Number 475 of 800 copies printed. The annual year book of the famous Dutch Treat Club, founded in 1905, and still active today. The original club was founded by a group of Art Directors and Editors who worked for the earlier Life Magazine, who.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C.; [printed by] Butler & Tanner Ltd., [1932]. Small octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 137, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of thoughts – not quite idle thoughts – "gastronomical, literary, and political (though heedless of ephemeral policies)" from the preface. Welby was an interesting character, born and raised in India by parents who forbade him from speaking English until the age.....
Boston: Published by Charles Gaylord, 1831. Duodecimo (15 x 10.5 cm.), 102, 6 pages. Index. Author from bibliographic references (name appears on earlier edition). Later edition; first published with this title in 1830 by Concord, N.H.'s Fisk & Chase. Earlier editions were issued under the titles, Select Collection of Approved... (1820), and Thirty-one Real Genuine Receipts.., (1825), but were significantly shorter and lacked the section of culinary receipts. This popular.....
St. Louis, MO: Wrought Iron Range Company, [1927]. Octavo (22 x 16 cm.), 211, [4] pages. Later edition of this combined cookbook and trade catalogue, which changed slightly with each change in stove models. The Model "AC" is the most recent stove depicted, here in a two page color spread (pages [12]-13), and thus the date of [1927]. Includes recipes for breakfast, beverages, bread, dinner, salads, puddings, and household hints.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1984. Imperial 16mo. (19.5 x 14 cm.), [44] pages. Text set in 12-point Bell. Printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound by Smith Settle. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies. There was also a deluxe edition of thirty copies with the illustrations colored by hand, and enclosed in a black clamshell box. One of the most charming of.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Myers, Publishers, 1876. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), vi, 403, [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in the text and on plates; decorated initials begin each section. Index divided by section. FIRST EDITION. Issued on the occasion of the American centennial, and containing both a cookbook and a guide to Philadelphia's sites for visitors to the events. Contents include cookery, medical recipes, child care, farming, and household recipes.....
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 48 N. Fourth Street; [electrotyped by George Charles, 9 Sansom Street], 1860. Small octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 160 pages. Index. Stated "fourth edition, revised and enlarged". Originally published Philadelphia, 1856 with the title What I Know, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper. One of a number of Quaker cookbooks to appear in the 1850s. The first section "The Economical Cook Book" (roughly two.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1865. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 200, [4] pages. Advertisements. The First American Edition of the English language translation of Leonard Francis Simpson. The earliest English language translation was that of Fayette Robinson, published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's translation here is quite unfaithful to the original, admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are, however, condensed, others omitted.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1984. Imperial 16mo. (19.5 x 14 cm.), [44] pages. Text set in 12-point Bell. Printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. FIRST EDITION, deluxe issue. Number 27/30 deluxe copies signed by Rosalind Randle and Judith Verity and hand-coloured by the artist. Judith Verity obtained material for the lino by pulling up part of the floor of the village school nearby.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, 1931. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [7], 127, [1] pages. Illustrated with ten full-page and one smaller drawing, plus a decoration on the title-page, all by Thomas Lowinsky. FIRST EDITION. Number 89 of 500 copies set in Caslon and SB Open and printed at the Fanfare Press on Batchelor Kelmscott handmade paper. An unlimited trade edition on machine made paper was issued.....