On a hot summer’s afternoon at an outdoor flea-market, I ran across a cardboard box brimming with dust-covered cooking pamphlets. The dealer was preparing to leave when I started to rummage through the box. I asked for the price. With sweat dripping down his face, the proprietor replied a buck apiece. I slowly started to examine them. When almost everything else was packed away, the dealer proposed fifty bucks for the entire box. "What a deal," he proclaimed without exuberance. W...
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Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skilful [sic] Housewife’s Book. New-York: D. Newell, 1846. [Lowenstein #392]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. New-York: J. M. Fairchild & Co., 1855. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. In Saxton’s Rural Hand Books. Fourth Series. New York; C. M. Saxton and Company, 1857. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Acton, Eliza. Modern Cookery: Prepared for American Housekeeper by Mrs. S. J. Hale. From the Second London Edition. ...
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. New-York: J. M. Fairchild & Co., 1855. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. In Saxton’s Rural Hand Books. Fourth Series. New York; C. M. Saxton and Company, 1857. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Acton, Eliza. Modern Cookery: Prepared for American Housekeeper by Mrs. S. J. Hale. From the Second London Edition. ...
I first ran across a copy of the 1874 edition of Ransom’s Family Receipt Book at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. It intrigued me enough to purchase several booklets last year when a bookdealer offered them to me. However, at the time I was in the midst of several writing tasks, so I set them aside. When I began preparing an article on advertising cookbooklets for the Cookbook Collectors Exchange Newsletter, I examined the Ransom booklets more closely. They had bee...
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