London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 7, Ludgate Hill, by C. Green, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, 1821. Tall duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), [vi], 160, xxiii, [1] pages. Title page with hand-colored engraved illustration of a brick oven. Advertisements at rear for other works by the author. Bibliographical references. Twelve pages of reviews of Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food, inserted at end. FIRST EDITION. One of two 1821 editions (one.....

Montvale, New Jersey: Heritage Kitchens, [1980]. Comb-bound book in stiff wrappers (21.5 x 19 cm.), [ii], 108, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early collection of recipes describing uses of bulgur wheat, with an historical introduction. "... 9000 thousand years are embodied in presenting a useful, tasty, and nutritious food in a variety of dishes" (from the Introduction). Some light soil and spots to the wrapper panels; internally clean. About.....

Phoenixville, PA: circa 1890. Broadside (35.5 x 28 cm.); set of six photographs, approximately 13 x 11 cm each; and business card, 4.5 x 9 cm. Broadside with pasted down photograph by A.W. Rothengatter & Company of Philadelphia. Offers fresh baked items daily, seasonal treats, and event catering. Four photographs are pasted down to individual rough-edged board, remainder with descriptions to verso. Photos illustrate various exterior and interior shots of.....

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.....

[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1969]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), [2], 24 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; originally issued in Queen magazine on December 4, 1968. A small but authoritative pamphlet on English bread baking from Elizabeth David, (1913-1992), the author of the later English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977). This is one in the series of eight little books by David, mostly issued from her.....

London: 1977. Three unpublished pen and ink sketches by Wendy Jones on tracing paper pasted to white board, with some use of correction fluid. Contained in a large folder (37 x 29 cm.) titled “Sketches for bread book Wendy Jones”. The bread book is Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast. The first board (21.5 x 19 cm.) contains two images: two measuring cups and a kitchen scale. The second board.....

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.....

Pittsburgh: Shaw Brothers, Printers, 1910. Stapled booklet, (15 x 19.5 cm.), 49 pages. In gold-printed gray wrappers with very minor rubbing and small chip to spine, slight rusting to staples, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates no copies].

Leipzig und Nordhauser: Heinrich Killinger, n.d. c. 1910. Quarto, Fifty-four double page chromolithograph plates of prize-winning cake decorations. The plates are lovely, and the styles vary widely, from Vienna Secessionist to more traditional. With a tiny bit of adhesion to a few plates, otherwise the plates are bright and generally very good. Some soiling to edges of text block, and a bit of rubbing to the decorated blue cloth boards.....

London: Gresham Publishing Company Ltd., 1907-1909. Six volumes; large octavos (25.5 x 18 cm.), xii, 564; x, [2], 566, [8] pages (volumes 1-3, and 1-4 paginated continuously). Index to complete work in volume six. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 260 illustrations, seventy-eight plates (some color), portraits on sixteen plates (some with tissue guards with legends), four maps, two folded tables. Some volumes include publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. A second.....

Brattleboro, Vt. Stephen Greene, 1978. Small quarto (23 x 18 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated after drawings by Jim Arnosky. Foreword by M.F.K. Fisher. FIRST EDITION. Fifty recipes for bread and fifty for soup. The book, "nourishes us with simplicity, adjusted to our times, but also with many subtleties that are as amusing as they are plain... it is satisfying to find an intelligently compiled, sensitive, practical book called, with a......

LeRoy, N. Y. The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong, stapled booklet (18 pages). Illustrated throughout in color; with 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. Wrappers soiled, otherwise very good.

Chicago: The Bakers' Helper Co., [1906]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 114 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A small but thorough survey of breads and cakes in use in Europe and America, by a bread and pastry cook, and author of a number of professional baking books for Hotel Monthly Press. The author emphasizes a scientific approach, particularly with the use of the thermometer to accurately measure temperature, and.....