Item #140942960 Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking. Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.
Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884.

First edition, second printing published the same year as the first, with sixteen advertisements on seven pages, rather than six on four pages. Except for the advertisements, the contents and pagination of the 1884, 1885, 1886 and 1887 printings are identical. The milestone cookbook from the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. Bound in contemporary black pebbled cloth with new black leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages soiled or foxed throughout, chip to top corner of title page, fore edges occasionally worn, an amateur repair to one leaf (pages 304/305). A scarce early printing of an important American cookbook. Item #140942960

Price: $3,500.00