[Warford, Aaron]

How to Make Candy. A Complete Hand Book for Making all Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, etc., etc.

New York: Frank Tousey, Publishe (sic), 1884.

Stapled booklet with printed wrappers. 60, [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. The author is supplied by the LOC records. Warford was the author of a long list of “How To” books in fields as varied as cookery, magic, religious belief and more. With an LOC copyright stamp to the titles page and wrappers, both dated August 22, 1884. Small chip missing from rear panel and one adjacent leaf, bit of wear to lower right corner of text block, otherwise near fine, in publisher’s printed yellow wrappers, depicting male and female confectioners pulling sugar from hook mounted on the wall. With the oval Library of Congress copyright acceptance stamp to wrappers and to title page. Scarce. [OCLC locates two copies of this 1884 first, and two of the 1891 second printing].

Price: $350.00