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

by Mrs. D. A Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

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

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