Hutchins’ Receipt Book: Containing valuable and choice receipts, many of which were never before published : Highly interesting to every one, and should be in every family : To which is added important information concerning cephalalgia or headache, a remedy to this terrible disease, and finally a cure : Stillman Wood, – Barre, Vt. where may be found Hutchins' headache & cathartic pills, fine toilet soaps, drugs, medicines, perfumery, chemicals, brushes, combs, fancy articles, &c. Pure wines and liquors.
[Springfield, Mass.]: Samuel Bowles & Company, Printers, 1867.
Booklet in cord-sewn wrappers (18.5 x 11 cm.), [1], 2-9, 12-14, 11, 16-24, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication data from wrapper. Local distributor information pasted down to front wrapper, “Sold by C.W. Hinsdale, 305 Warren Street, Hudson, N.Y." At head of wrapper title, "Price, ten cents". Publication date from prefatory note, page [1] signed, "H. Hutchins. Springfield, Mass., May, 1867". Promotional literature for proprietary remedies manufactured by H. Hutchins. Foxing throughout, and some leaves dog eared. In publisher's black-titled pale blue wrappers with paste-down label noted above. Rear wrapper panel contains an illustration of a headache sufferer and a doctor. Near very good. Scarce. [OCLC records three copies matching this publisher's info, and an additional two copies indicated as 1858 (this may be in error, as the copy we hold has a copyright date of 1858, but a prefatory note signed and dated "1867"; not in Lowenstein].
Price: $150.00