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•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers; pamphlet creased once vertically, slightly age-toned overall.  (26062)

Although a number of leaves here are blank, the content is substantial, legible, and interesting. No dates are present in the text itself, but the paper bears a Dutch watermark related to Churchill 109–119, and was produced in the Seven Provinces ca. 1675–1700 and the recipes attributed to Beeton must date after 1861. Some of the handwriting and spelling is consistent with a date of 1730.

•  Contemporary vellum, rebacked, corners rubbed/bumped, front cover with now-illegible traces of inked ownership inscription, covers with spots of discoloration; hinges (inside) reinforced. First leaf excised (first recipe present numbered 2). Soiling (mostly at or in from edges) and moderate foxing/spotting, throughout.  (25630)

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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)

The text is ornamented with woodcut initials and occasional head- and tailpieces. Panvinio's De ritu sepeliendi mortuos, De stationibus urbis Romae, and Chronicon ecclesiasticum are appended at the back (as issued), and have separate title-pages and pagination.

•  On Platina, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, XI, 430. Platina: Adams P1422; VD16 P 3264. Panvinio (Chronicon ecclesiasticum): VD16 P 250; not in Adams.   Period-style calf, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and raised bands ruled in blind with ornaments extending onto covers. A few small early inked marks of emphasis, one pencilled annotation; back fly-leaf with early inked numeral in upper margin now smeared and offset onto opposing page. Pages gently age-toned with occasional light spots or offsetting; waterstaining to margins of first and last few leaves; appearance overall clean and pleasing.  (27568)

There are two issues: in this issue on p. [1], the catchword is “hendidos,” and in the other catchword is “hendi-.”

WorldCat locates only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.

•  Removed from a volume. Light brown stain in lower margin and an even lighter stain in top one; old foliation number neatly inked in upper outer corner of recto. A good exemplar.  (28246)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Barile 39–40; Bitting 388 (for early editions); Cagle & Stafford 627 (second ed. on). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Binding as above, light rubbing overall, more pronounced to joints and extremities. Front free endpaper with later inked ownership inscription (“E. Endicott”). Pages very clean and crisp: a desirable copy.  (28633)

•  In a Mylar folder. Pages darkened, with small discolorations and edges somewhat tattered. A pleasing gift for anyone exploring culinary, or almost certainly women’s, history. (2557)

This edition includes the engraved frontispiece, a kitchen and larder scene, along with nine other plates (as called for) showing carving and trussing diagrams.

•  Bitting 410–11; Cagle 971 (for first ed.). On Rundell, see: DNB, XLIX, 403.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges with gilt roll; binding lightly scuffed/rubbed overall and with some pitting thanks to the “speckling.” One front fly-leaf excised. Front free endpaper with bold inked ownership inscription dated 1813 and with two small pencilled “decorations”; title-page with decorative but sadly illegible private collection rubber-stamp. One recipe with early inked annotation. Scattered light foxing and staining, pages mostly clean. A classic, in a very nice copy of a less-common edition.  (26674)

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 1955 (for 1927 ed.).   Publisher's orange buckram-covered boards inoriginal pictorial dust jacket showing a clearly very fortunate family at table; spine very slightly sunned, front upper edge faintly dust-soiled, jacket with spine sunned and back panel moderately soiled, tear (with some resulting creasing) to upper portion of front panel and small nicks to spine extremities. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.  (30179)

•  NSTC S2029; Bitting 436–37; Cagle 990 (first ed.); Oxford 134–35; Vicaire 792 (first ed.).   Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets; rebacked some time ago, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label, spine leather showing small cracks, edges and extremities lightly rubbed. New endpapers. Title-page with small early inked ownership inscription in upper margin; one recipe with tiny, early inked annotation (“1 leg [of beef] will make 5 qts. [of stock]”). Pages untrimmed. Light foxing. A desirable copy.  (26834)

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Original edition, not a modern reprint.

•  Publisher's oxblood cloth, covers decoratively stamped in black, spine black- and gilt-stamped; corners and spine extremities rubbed, sides with small areas of minor discoloration, spine sunned with paper shelving label at head, a little cocked. Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-page and four others. Final blank leaf excised. Clean, sound for use.  (27367)

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Binding:  Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.

•  American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50.   Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing.  (25425)

•  Not in Bitting, not in Cagle.   Publisher's moiré plum-colored cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine and edges worn with hinges (inside) starting. Pages age-toned with occasional smudges; some corners dog-eared and one leaf with ragged edges. Recipe index with several instances of “cider” lined through in pencil and rubber-stamped “ciderette” instead. Lots and lots and lots of information and, in the format, some sense of how it was worked with.  (28522)

•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with title stamped in black, in dust wrapper; binding slightly cocked and dust jacket sunned at fore- and top-edges, with nick to front outer edge. Pages clean. Very good condition.  (22496)

•  Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; spine sunned.  (24484)

Evidence of Readership: Intermittent errata markings and (useful) pencilled marginalia, often offering additional bibliographical references.

•  Publisher's dun cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust wrapper; binding clean and fresh, wrapper with spine very slightly darkened, short tears at spine extremities and small nicks to upper front edge. Pencilled markings as above; pages otherwise clean. A worthy copy.  (29381)

Cagle and Stafford note that the work was previously published in 1835 in the author's weekly magazine, The Original, and then appeared in book form in 1837; the present volume, the second edition, is reproduced in part by photolithography from the earlier printing. None of the early editions are common.

•  Bitting, 519; Brown 2378; Cagle & Stafford 788. Publisher's green cloth, covers and spine black-stamped in decorative designs, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with title. Binding with light signs of wear: corners bumped, spine head and foot pulled, spine faintly faded. Top edge gilt. Hinges slightly tender. Half-title verso with inked ownership inscription. A nice, clean copy.