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.....

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), vi, [4], 222 pages. Illustrated with fourteen plates with black and white photographic reproductions. Index. Revised edition, originally published in 1917. A complete guide to candy-making, used in course work at the Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, and in this revised edition, fully updated. Chapters include Uncooked Candies, Fondant Candies, Crystallized Fruits, Meringues and Macaroons, and Popcorn Candies. Alice.....

New York: Page and Shaw, 1921. Stapled booklet (14.5 x 9 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated. Stated “sixth edition” of an unrecorded promotional booklet for the significant candy shop firm, Page & Shaw, which grew from a single shop on West Street in Boston in 1888 to a multinational candy retailer by the time of this publication. Illustrations depict the storefronts of the Page & Shaw candy shops in Boston, London.....

New York: Excelsior Publishing House, [1901]. Excelsior Library of Popular Hand Books, no. 64. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 477-556, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements; illustrated. Later edition; originally published in 1878 in the series 'Haney's Trade Manuals', which included works on animal training and sign painting. This is the sole book in the series devoted to food of any sort. Haney's manuals were extracted originally from The Home Mechanic.....

London: J.S. Fry & Sons, [1891]. Small octavo-sized book (16 x 10 cm.), [14] leaves Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs. Advertisements. Date supplied from British Library Catalogue. A lavishly illustrated promotional booklet in publisher's brown papier-mache boards sculpted to look like a J.S. Fry & Sons chocolate bar. Brown end papers with Fry & Sons advertisements on rear paste-down. A delicate production, with tender hinges. Internally bright and clean. Some light.....

Staunton, Va. John D. Hounihan, [1877]. Small octavo, (17 x 13.5 cm.), iv, [2], 363, [1] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts in the text, and with twenty-six full-page monochrome plates in blue, green, dark green, orange, and pink. Advertisement on final leaf. Spine title: The Art of Baking. FIRST EDITION. A baking and confectionery manual for the public, practical baker, and tradesman. Sections include: yeast, bread, cakes, pastry (which includes pies).....

London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Octavo, 276 pages, with two folding plates and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. The author's full name was William Alexis Jarrin [Guglielmo Alexis]. In early editions, including this one, the name is abbreviated "G.A." Later he anglicized his name, abbreviated as "W.A." "In 1820 Jarrin published this work, The Italian Confectioner, through which he is best known. The book.....

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.....

Dixon, Illinois: Printed by Rogers and Owen, 1898. Cord-sewn duodecimo (14 x 11.5 cm.; wrappers 16 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Pages [13-16] left blank for "Additional recipes". We are aware of two cover designs: this one with a line drawing of a woman, and a second on crepe-style paper with the title only. The priority of the two wrapper designs remains undetermined. FIRST EDITION. Attractively designed pamphlet with an.....

Danvers, Mass.; Lynn, Mass. L.A. Roberts & Co.; Perry & Searle, Printers, 1902. Stapled booklet (17 x 12.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. [Cover title: 100 Recipes with Cream of Pure Chocolate]. First and only edition. Includes testimonials and prize-winning recipes, many attributed to their contributors. Sections include: Beverages, Beverages for the sick, Cakes and cookies, Candy, Custards, Frostings, Fudge, Ice cream, Pie fillings, Puddings, Sandwiches. Some offsetting from wrappers to.....

Hershey, Penn. [the author], 1947. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (27 x 19.5 cm.), 41 [7] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION thus. A tribute to (Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945), the founder of the famous Hershey Chocolate Company of Hershey Pennsylvania. The title essay was first published in 1939 with the title, "Meet Mr Hershey"; here it is re-titled, and added are an essay by Hershey himself, and a memorial statement. Clean.....

Unbound sheets of black construction paper (17 x 14 cm.), mounted with thirty-one chromolithograph trade cards. Two of the cards, those for the Maison du Petit st. Thomas, are die-cuts of an artist’s palate. Mounting paper is worn and chipped at edges; though the cards are mounted, the rectos of the cards themselves are very good.

Dresden; Oakton, Virginia: Anton Reiche AG; Oakton Hills Publication, [1883] 1983. Facsimile. Oblong quarto (21.5 x 28.5 cm.), [10], 40 pages. Printed rectos only in brown ink. Illustrated throughout. Number 426 of 500 hand-numbered copies, issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the National Confectioners Association. Hundreds of chocolate moulds are depicted. With a description of the Reiche factory in German and in English. Tan paper wrappers, decorated.....