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In the Kitchen
by [Miller, Elizabeth S.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston/New York: Lee & Shepard/Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875. Large octavo (22.5 x 18), 568 pages. Author information from the copyright page. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, drawn from various sources, including French, German and English cookbooks, as well as "written receipt-books of families famous both at the North and South for their savory cooking." The compiler, Elizabeth S. Miller, hails from Geneva, New York, and dedicates the book to the "Cooking Class of the Young Ladies' Saturday Morning Club". Some stains and chipping to fore edge of first few leaves; age-toning throughout. Spine rebacked with original decorated cloth laid-down, showing some wear to the head and foot of the spine. In rubbed and soiled, black- and gilt-decorated beveled boards. Good. With a neat ownership signature to preliminary blank, "Lynn, March. Lettie J. Adams, 1877". [Bitting, page 325; not in Cagle].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7304
- Title
- In the Kitchen
- Author
- [Miller, Elizabeth S.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lee & Shepard/Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- cookbook, american
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About the Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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Alfred, Maine
About Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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