The Housekeepers' Friend: containing valuable receipts for those who regard economy as well as excellence. Synonyms and homonyms. Almanac 1880.
[Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co.; Press of Mills, Knight & Co., 1880].
Small octavo, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 11 cm.), [~80] pages. Illustrated; wrapper printed in chromolithograph. Advertising matter of local merchants interspersed throughout. Earliest issue of this New England housekeepers' almanac and promotional cookbook, issued by Joseph Burnett & Co, makers of flavor extracts, and additionally used to promote local businesses (through a drop-in box on the front wrapper panel). In this case the additional promotion goes to Butler & Laighton, Fine Groceries, of Rockingham County, N.H. Internally clan and sound. Small closed tear to foot of chromolithograph wrappers, otherwise near fine and bright. [OCLC locates four copies of this 1880 issue and eleven copies of all other issues (through 1884)].
Price: $250.00