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COOKING
& GASTRONOMY 
“The
Newest &
Most Recherché
These will Naturally be Expensive”
(A
Guide for the “Comfortable” Household). Owen,
Catherine [pseud. of Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch]. Choice cookery.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.6"). vi, 316, [4 (adv.)]
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. This is the first edition of the first book-form printing, with most of the recipes having previously appeared in issues of Harper’s Bazaar.
Provenance: Bookplate of Henry H. Bynam, Pittsburgh, partly chipped away.
• Bitting 351; Brown, Culinary Americana, 2479; Cagle & Stafford 581. Publisher’s olive pebbled cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened with head and foot chipped. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate as above; front fly-leaf, with pencilled annotations, now separating. Two pages with small areas of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, one page with inkstain (affecting but not obscuring text), pages otherwise clean. A good copy of an evocative cookbook. (28524)
This entry is repeated in the
“A Girl Need Never be a
Drudge”Beeton, Samuel & Isabella. The Englishwoman's domestic magazine. An illustrated journal, combining practical information, instruction, and amusement. New series. Vol. IV. London: S.O. Beeton, 1862. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). 284 pp.; 6 col. plts., 1 col. fold. plt.
Click the images for enlargements. cookery, etc., illustrated with in-text engravings and
six richly hand-colored fashion plates, plus one color-printed, oversized, folding fashion plate.
This volume also includes an interesting editorial, “Solid Pudding,” in which the author claims that modern girls are both better educated and as domestically skilled if not more so than their ancestors — they're better company for it, to boot!
Readers looking for entertainment should note that many of the tales present here are portions of serialized novels begun in previous numbers or slated to end in later ones.
• Publisher's textured green cloth, front cover with blind-stamped frame and decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened with head chipped, edges and extremities rubbed, sides showing spots of minor discoloration, binding slightly shaken. Front free endpaper rubber-stamped “Mrs. Stanley.” Light foxing; a few leaves with upper margins chipped; outer edge of folding plate slightly ragged.
A marvelous representation of women's reading of the day, with attractive color plates. (32034)
As Bibliographies Go, Delicious! Cagle, William R., & Lisa Killion Stafford, comps. American books on food and drink: A bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in The Lilly Library at the [sic] Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 8vo. xviii, 794 pp., illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • New, in dust jacket. (29379)
Another
Tasty Cagle Bibliography Cagle, William R., comp. A matter of taste a bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 8vo (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xxiii, [1 (blank)], 991, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • New, in dust jacket. (29380)
EARLY U.S. EDITION: An Influential Classic
Carter, Susannah. The frugal housewife: Or, complete
woman cook. Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). 132 pp.; 2 plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. 
Provenance: Flourishing old signatures of “J. Lowry” to pastedown and title-page.
Click the interior images for enlargements.
Presentation Copy: Corson's Textbook of Economic Cookery Corson, Juliet. Cooking school text book; and housekeeper's guide to cookery and kitchen management. New York: Orange Judd, 1879. 12mo. 240 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: This is in a simply elegant binding of publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine each with decorative gilt-stamped title; front cover with author's facsimile signature in gilt, and publishing information.
Presentation copy: Front fly-leaf inscribed in pencil, “Compliments of Juliet Corson Apr. 1880.” The signature matches the facsimile signature on the front cover.
• Not in Bitting; not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Cagle & Stafford. Extremities mildly rubbed (head of spine moreso), small spots of very faint discoloration to sides. Fly-leaf with inscription as above. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. It's quite fair to call this “lovely.” (28479)
Bancroft
Library Cookery
(Craig "Diet &
Cookery" Collection). Four hundred years of English diet &
cookery[:] a selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939 from the collection
of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library,
1987. Small 8vo. 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, with a little light soil; top edges of booklet darkened. Generally a clean, good copy.
“New, Useful, & Entertaining”
Daboll, Nathan. New-England almanac, for the year ... 1808 ... By Nathan Daboll. New-London [Conn.]: Pr. by Ebenezer P. Cady, [1807]. 12mo. [18] ff.
• Charcoal tooth-powder, orchards, andbutter
making.
Click
the image for an enlargement.
• Drake 707; Shaw & Shoemaker 13185. Removed from a nonce volume and resewn. (9489)
For
more ALMANACS, click here. 
Japanese-AMERICAN! Cook Book Engler, George E. Hibachi cookery in the American manner. Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., © 1952. 8vo. [2], viii, [2], 306, [2] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. The title-page verso has an affixed paper label reading “Manufactured in Japan by the Dai Nippon Printing Co.”
• Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers, joints and extremities lightly rubbed. Pages clean. A very nice copy. (30351)
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