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. Squarish 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". A few neat handwritten notes, and some age toning to the text block. Some wear to the head and foot of the spine. In black and gilt-decorated beveled boards. Near very good. In black and gilt-decorated beveled boards. Near very good. [Bitting, page 325; not in Cagle].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4888
- 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
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- New
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- First Edition
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- Copyright page
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