Boston Receipts. Containing over two hundred common-sense receipts, for economical and healthful cooking, etc.
Boston: A. Williams & Co.; Press of Wright & Potter, 1876.
Octavo (18.5 x 11.7 cm.), 48 pages, "with blank pages interleaved". Table of contents. Advertisements. Author from copyright statement and from LC Old Records. FIRST EDITION. A charitable cookbook, published "for the first time for the Fair in aid of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum" (Preface). The recipes are presented in narrative form. The rear wrapper panel displays ads for Burnett's Standard Extracts, and the Boston crockery dealer Abram French & Co. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's printed gray wrapper, with a bit of edge chipping and creasing. Near very good. Rare. [OCLC locates two copies (BPL, LOC)].
Price: $300.00