The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encycopedia: Comprehending all valuable receipts for cooking meat, fish, and fowl … and a complete system of Confectionery. By a Boston Housekeeper … Alphabetically arranged.
Boston: Published … by Munroe & Francis. New York, by Charles S. Francis, and David Felt, 1832.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition. Woodcut diagram showing cuts of meat on page xxxii. xxxvi, 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original rose muslin, edges uncut. Professionally conserved (rebacked, preserving original spine), printed paper label in facsimile. Lowenstein 160; Cagle & Stafford 447; AI 1336; Axford p. 99; Wheaton and Kelly 3537.
Item #241305
The first of numerous reprints of the 1833 edition, which itself expanded the 1832 edition by 'Mrs. N. K. M. Lee' by the addition of the final section of Eliza Leslie's 75 recipes for desserts.
A choice copy in a finely conserved early cloth binding.