Approximately fifty items chosen for the 2020 Virtual Boston Book Fair, November 12-14. New England culinary history is well represented, including exceptional works by Fannie Farmer and Mary Lincoln. Ephemera includes trade catalogues and menus, and a bound collection of correspondence related to social event given by a prominent Boston family. There are Early American books by Frederick Nutt on confectionery and Frederick Butler on agriculture, English cookery books including Robert Smith's Court Cookery, Huddleston's New Method of Cookery, and a blend of the American and English in the first US edition of Hannah Glasse's Art of Cookery. There are also rare books and paper related to drink, and a very much more recent, but quite lovely cookbook from a Newfoundland rod and gun club.
[Boston, Mass. Ben Burk Inc., 1934]. Folio, in post & staple-bound folder (31.5 x 24.5 cm.), [28] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue for the distilled products of Ben Burk Inc., the distillery more famous for their long-running Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide. The Guide first appeared with Repeal of Prohibition in 1934, though it was preceded by a number of printings of One Hundred Cocktails, Some Old --.....
St. Louis, Mo. the company, 1951. Quarto-sized, stapled booklet in wrappers (29 x 22.5 cm.), 28 pages. Illustrated. A self-mailing trade catalogue featuring equipment and supplies for bars, taverns, soda fountains, and other drinking establishments. Mostly smaller products including a wide range of glassware, dishwashing chemicals, pourers, playing cards, olive forks, bottle stoppers, blenders, lemon squeezers, cocktail shakers, strainers, ice chippers, ice picks, ice tongs, jiggers, muddlers, tongs, fountain menu.....
n.p.; [Brooklyn]: Ernest R. Gee; [Printed at the Press of August Becker], 1926. Small octavo (18.5 x 13.5 cm.), (3)-24 pages. Black and white engraved frontispiece and title cut. First edition thus; a reprinting – "Privately printed for Ernest R. Gee" – of the original London edition of 1848. Gee was a colleague of Eugene Connett, of Derrydale Press fame, and the two men influenced one another. Frazier M-6-a states.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Small octavo (17.7 x 12 cm.), 112 pages. Later printing. The second cookbook, following The Little Dinner, from Christine Terhune Herrick, author of over thirty books on housekeeping and cooking, and the daughter of Marion Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune). Her first article was published in the very first issue of Good Housekeeping, in 1885. In this work, Herrick offers a brief history.....
[Dennis, Mass.]: Salt-Works Press, [1974]. Chapbook, stapled in wrappers (13.75 x 10 cm.), [15], 6, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies. An early work of the poet/printer Tom Bridwell. The poems are amongst very the best modern American works in the Georgical tradition. Bridwell ran Salt-Works Press with his then wife, Marilyn Kitchell, publishing Lyn Hejinian and Ted Enslin among others. Brown wrappers, lettered on the front panel.....
[Dumfries]: printed for the author, [circa 1760]. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states “another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]” (though that edition is dated, “M.DCC.LX” at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as “Second Edition”. Both editions display the misspelled author’s.....
Boston; Cambridge: Roberts Brothers; [printed by Universtiy Press, John Wilson & Sons], 1891. Octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements, mostly testimonials. Later printing; first issued in 1887. A collection of specific instructions on carving and serving various cuts of meat, including tongue, calf's head, haunch of venison, veal neck, etc. Chromolithograph-illustrated paper covered boards with beveled edges; over red cloth spine. Very little wear or soiling.....
Falls Village, Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press, 1965. Duodecimo (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), 48, [1], 27, [1] pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS, limited to 250 numbered copies (this is number 26 of 250). Originally published in London 1666, "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook, at the Ship in.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xii, 365 pages. FIRST EDITION. The third book from the Boston-based couple whose earlier work included The Romagnoli's Table and the eponymous restaurant in Faneuil Hall. This book brings "modern" techniques like pressure cooking, micro-waving, and food processing to the more classical techniques they employed in their earlier works. Fine in publisher's mustard yellow cloth; in price clipped and.....
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Marion, Massachusetts: Friends and Members, [n.d., circa 1960]. Mimeographed booklet, hole punched but not bound, (14 x 11.5 cm.), [16 pages (some vertical gatefolds)]. Cover illustrated with a linocut. Title partly from the wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook for Marion, Massachusett's First Congregational Church. All recipes are attributed, and each is given its own page, some of which are cut longer to fit a longer recipe. Some of the.....
New York: Reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his Bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street, 1807. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), 91, [1] pages. Frontispiece. Index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The first confectionery manual printed in America. Originally published London, 1789; this American issue, after the London “4th edition, with considerable additions”. The author fancied his work was just the second work on the subject published in England, and went to some.....
London: Printed and Published by C. Clement, No. 183, Fleet Street, 1822; [1821-22]. 16mo. (19 x 11.5 cm.), [iv], 207, iv pages. Index. FIRST EDITION, original issue, bound from the seven monthly parts published between August 1, 1821 and March 1, 1822 (no entry for February, 1822 was issued); with an added title page for the whole, dated 1822, and an added Index at rear. An important rural handbook, from.....
Weathersfield; Middletown [Conn.]: Published by the author; Clark & Lyman, Printer, 1821. Duodecimo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [2], 224 pages. Table of contents. Second Edition, originally published in Hartford, by Samuel Goodrich in 1819. An early handbook for the American farmer, with advice on vegetable and fruit gardening, as well as a section on the management of bees. Frederick Butler (1766-1843) extols a balance between the too rapid adaptation of.....
Lancaster [PA]: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. Octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), [2], [3]-118 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION. Compendium of popular folk remedies compiled by Heinen from various sources. “The author in his preface states that the book is written in non -technical language for the German farmer and ruralist… the book contains more than one hundred headings, listing various illnesses, giving their symptoms, causes, and treatment.....
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company; [Stereotyped by C.J. Peters & Son], 1866. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 346 pages. FIRST EDITION. As complete and thorough a confectionery book as was published in America in the 19th Century. The author claims these "receipts are from the best New York, Philadelphia, and Boston Confectioners, and include a large number from the French and other foreign nations..." though much of it was sourced.....
[no place; American: no date, circa 1870]. Bi-fold, large handbill (32 x 20 cm.), [4] pages. A slim publication offering twenty recipes under the heading, “Directions for Mixing Liquors”, and on the facing page two additional recipes, “To Make Old Rye” and “Brandy Coloring”. The twenty recipes for adulterated, facsimile liquors include: Wormwood Bitters, Best Bitters, Dark Cogniac Brandy [sp], Caroway Cordial, Lemon Syrup and more. Though no individual or.....
[Boston: winter, 1896]. Octavo-sized correspondence record book (22.5 x 15 x 8 cm.), bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake, wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame (see DAB), gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station (1:45 AM) via private train.....
[Switzerland or Germany: circa 1835]. Folio notebook; loose gatherings in separate, ribbon-tied boards (38 x 25 cm.). Two hundred forty original drawings, with accompanying manuscript text, on individual trimmed leaves, each mounted thematically with others of its type, with brass pins to the inside of folio double leafs. Text is in German, with some plant names also in Latin. The lot housed in the original string-tied portfolio boards, heavy green.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xxvii, 237, [5], 16, [1] pages. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. Not a cookbook per se, but rather an instruction manual "for the use of classes in public and industrial schools" based on the work being done by the Boston School Kitchen. The Boston School Kitchen was initiated and funded by Mrs. Mary Hemenway in summer of 1885, and was the introduction.....
Vineyard Haven: Falmouth Publishing of Falmouth, Mass, [circa 1920]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm), 48 pages. Advertisements. Index (actually a table of contents). FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of two hundred eighty recipes, attributed in many cases to women with surnames still associated with the island's history, such as Downs, Bangs, Tilton, Chadwick, and Merrill. The title page includes the statement, "This class was organized by Mrs. Annie F. Lord.....
Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833. Duodecimo, [v]-xii, [13]-98. Three engraved plates (two hand-coloured). Second, enlarged edition (the first was published in 1831). Cobb [1799-1882] was a Massachusetts lawyer and pioneer silk manufacturer. He established one of the earliest silk mills in the United States in 1837. Based on his earlier researches, Cobb was commissioned to write the present manual, the first and most influential guide to American silk manufacture.....
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1887. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 321, [14] pages. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Lined, blank pages, headed "Memorandum" at rear. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, many of which first appeared in the author's column in the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. The chapters are told in an anecdotal fashion, with recipes as presented to a servant by her mistress. Includes "the.....
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 23 East 20th Street, 1904. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 244 pages. FIRST EDITION. A full treatment of the luncheon, from the author of The Boston Cook Book. In two parts, the first an overview of the idea of the event, both formal and informal, and of the mechanics of giving a luncheon. The second part is the author's idea of appropriate recipes for a......