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[Chicago, Ill.]; Philadelphia: John C. Winston; Standard Publishing Company, 1905. Two works [the complete book:] small octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), vi, 338 pages. Illustrated with [8] leaves of plates. Index. [WITH the salesman's dummy:] small octavo (19.2 x 12.8 cm.), specimen pages with various pagination and ruled pages for recording subscribers' names at end. ~ FIRST EDITION under this title, though this is an exact reproduction, perhaps a stereotyped edition, of an earlier work published in 1875 under the title: Cookery from Experience... Despite being a re-issue (the running title retains the original title), the dummy includes an ad for the book that states that, "Most of these recipes... have never appeared in print before". The Economical Cook Book also appeared in 1905 with the imprint of The Evening World. The author indicates that many of the recipes within are her own, or those she uses often, and she has marked these (indeed most) with an *. A bit of age-toning to both text blocks; dummy… Read More