[Rarebooks] FS: First Issue of MRS. LINCOLN'S BOSTON COOK BOOK, 1884

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Tue Jun 2 13:06:57 EDT 2015


[COOKERY] LINCOLN, Mrs. D. A. MRS. LINCOLN'S BOSTON COOK BOOK. WHAT TO 
DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO IN COOKING. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First 
Edition. First Issue, with 6 advertisements on 4 pages. Bound in 
original marbled boards with cloth spine and corners; xv [i] + 536 + 
(iv) pages with 50 text illustrations. GROLIER CLUB ONE HUNDRED 
INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1900: This book "marked a 
change in culinary literature. Having directed the Boston Cooking School 
(est. 1879), she was able to arrange her material in an orderly plan, 
and to set it forth in plain, sensible language that housewives could 
understand. While it instantly became the standard kitchen companion, it 
had still greater effect in shaping the course of early work in domestic 
science in grade and normal schools. FANNY FARMER'S COOK BOOK is a 
direct outgrowth from this." Two small tasteful bookplates on the front 
pastedown. Paper aged but not brittle, staining to endpapers, hinges 
neatly repaired. Light edgewear but overall a very nice example of this 
important title.

Bitting, page 288 for the 1896 edition. (#017834)        $600.00

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