Author: [Cookery Book]. Sheldon, Alice G. & Ward, Jean H. - Illustrators
Title: AUTOGRAPH RECIPES
Description: Boston: L. Prang & Co, 1888. 1st Edition. Tan linen cloth binding with color printed spine & boards. Marbled edges. Unpaginated, though ~ 250 pp. Tinted frontispiece. 16 chromolithographed divisional title leaves, followed by a lithographed leaf of text [poetry]. Oblong format: 6-7/8" x 9-1/2" A mostly blank recipe book adorned with Prang's exquisite chromolithographs. Each recipe signed by a different author; most in a contemporary hand and/or dated (1891) save the final recipe, dated 1920. Recipes include: Sausages, Tutti Frutti, Oil Pickle, Snow Pudding, and Dandelion Wine. Somewhat scarce, with OCLC listing but 5 institutional holdings. Modest shelfwear. Small label removal abrasions to fixed endpapers; light gutter break. 5 signed, mss recipes entered herein. A VG - VG+ copy.

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