Auburn, NY: Published by Lucy W. Bostwick, 1884. Cord bound pamphlet (14 x 11.5 cm.), 24 pages. Early – possible first – issue of this privately printed book of confectionery recipes. Bitting states that the book is copyright 1880, with the first edition 1881, but there are no copies located with Bitting's dating (the Bitting copy is 1885). Previous owner's name in pencil to title page, and again in ink.....
London; New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Limited, 1898. Metropolitan Pamphlet Series: vol. XI, no. 3. Large octavo-sized booklet (24 x 17 cm.), 56 pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Third Edition, following the first of 1891 (vol. 2, no 4.), and the second of 1892 (vol. 5, no. 2), both of 32 pages. A quirky book, likely because its contents were pulled from a variety of professional cookbooks in sections.....
New York: Fleischmann & Co., 1902. Duodecimo-sized stapled booklet, 52 pages. Printed throughout in brown ink. Second, expanded edition originally issued in 1893. A product cookbook, distributed “with the compliments of Fleischmann’s & Co., original manufacturers, introducers and manufacturers of compressed yeast in the United States and Canada.” Contains more than eighty recipes for breads, buns, cakes and more, all with the product as an ingredient. Fleischmann’s Yeast was founded.....
LeRoy, N. Y. The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong booklet, stapled (11 x 15.5 cm.), [18] pages. Illustrated throughout in color; color wrappers illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Includes recipes, menus, and text reassuring the consumer about the quality of Jell-O. With original cord tie, for hanging the booklet in the kitchen. Light soiling to wrappers, otherwise fine.
London; [Edinburgh]: Maclaren & Sons, 37 and 38 Shoe Lane; [Printed by Turnbull & Spears, 1903]. Quarto (29 x 23 cm.), 360 pages. Illustrated, with twelve full-page color illustrations, eight tipped-in half-tones; and two tipped-in gelatin silver prints; additional illustrations in the text. Advertisements. Index. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first or "subscribers' issue", differentiated from the second or ordinary issue by twenty-four additional pages, mostly advertisements and a list of subscribers.....