![Item #4336 [CALIFORNIA] The Bride's Cook Book](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4336.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721078588)
San Francisco: The California Bride's Cook Book Publishing Co., 1912. Hardcover. 110 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. A well organized and expansive cook book filled with period advertisements. Companies paid to have their products highlighted in the recipes including Folger's Golden Gate Baking Powder, Tea, and Spices, as well as..... More
![Item #4899 [CULINARY MANUSCRIPT] MY Recipes book; Home File for Clipped and Handwritten Recipes](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4899.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772058164)
Florida: 1960s. Spiral bound. A cloth covered, tabbed, three-ring binder was used by homemakers to compile and organize favorite recipes. Our author, a prolific baker and cook from the Fort Lauderdale area, filled this volume with both handwritten recipes and clippings from the Fort Lauderdale News, and promotional materials from..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Hardcover. 102 pages. 13 x 19 cm. Susan Anna Brown was inspired to write Mrs. Gilpin's Frugalities by a desire to address and remedy wastefulness in American kitchens. She drew inspiration for the book's title character, Mrs. Gilpin, from William Cowper's late 18th-century comedic..... More
![Item #4901 [CULINARY MANUSCRIPT] Indiana Family Recipe/Scrap Book; Generational Cookbook. Phyllis...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4901.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772058162)
Crowne Point, Indiana: 1940s-2010s. A remarkable family heirloom reflecting the lifelong dedication of Phyllis (Dilling) Dixon, who sought to preserve the recipes that united generations of Indiana women. "In 1944 I started to copy some of mom's recipes. I put them in a loose leaf book. I kept adding and..... More
![Item #3424 [COOKERY-MANUSCRIPT] ALICE WILLIAMS COOK BOOK; "Gilt Edge" loose leaf price book N.Y.,...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674524189)
c. 1920's. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated. 19 .5 x 14 cm. Unique handmade cook book fashioned from a lined, tabbed, loose leaf binder, covered with heavy waxed wallpaper or waxed cloth. Alice has both typed the various recipes along with her hand written recipes. It appears Alice may have gone back and..... More
![Item #4543 [CANADA] [HANDMADE] COOK BOOK](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739323781)
c. 1920s - 1940s. Ring_bound. This Canadian homemade cookbook is filled with a potpourri of both handwritten, printed, and pasted recipes. The Canadian National Exhibition Cooking School's printed recipes are featured as well as Lake Simcoe Ice Refrigeration and Cooking School recipes. Our author uses anything and everything to write..... More
![Item #4541 [HANDMADE] [COOKBOOK] Homemade cookbook binder](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4541.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739323732)
Oklahoma - Nebraska: c. 1950-1980. Ring_bound. This well-used black binder is chock-full of recipes that stood the test of time. Pasted on the interior of the front cover is the typed recipe for "NEIMAN MARCUS COOKIES". After that, our author uses every ounce of space to safeguard her go to..... More
![Item #4250 [HANDMADE] [REPURPOSED] [COOKBOOK] RECIPES](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4250.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718123713)
c. 1955. Hardcover. 25.5 x 13.5 cm. A charming, homemade mid-century cookbook by an unknown maker. To create it, the author ingeniously repurposed a book, covering the outer boards with black wallpaper to make it uniquely her own. Inside are nine envelopes, each decorated with cut-out images of food and..... More
![Item #4527 [MANUSCRIPT] Handwritten Cookbook](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738623080)
c. 1930. Hardcover. 67 pages (written). 24 x 19 cm. Neatly written homemade cookbook with 206 recipes, 3 handwritten recipes laid in. Our author was fond of baking although there are some savory recipes included and a few remedies. A sampling of recipes include: Birthday Cake, Orange Filling, Boston Cookies..... More
![Item #4432 [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKBOOK] The Colossus](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4432.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731361152)
Ontario, Canada: 1910's -1940's. Hardcover. Handwritten cookbook dating from c. 1910 until after 1940. Newspaper clippings reveal the location as Ontario, Canada and most likely handed down from mother to daughter or generation to generation. Truly a "Colossus" containing hundreds of recipes. With many handwritten recipes and remedies including methods..... More
![Item #4624 [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKBOOK] The Colossus](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Ontario, Canada: 1910's -1940's. Hardcover. Handwritten cookbook dating from c. 1910 until after 1940. Newspaper clippings reveal the location as Ontario, Canada and most likely handed down from mother to daughter or generation to generation. Truly a "Colossus" containing hundreds of recipes. With many handwritten recipes and remedies including methods..... More
![Item #3540 [TEXTILES] Sample Book - Fancy Needlework for Trimming Dresses](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3540.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680042528)
c. 1890. Sewn binding. 7 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Thirty-three distinct and skillfully hand stitched trim samples - each sewn onto a handmade cloth book. During the Victorian era, women were taught the sewing skills for both plain and fancy work - plain sewing was used to mend simple..... More
![Item #3448 [GERMAN COOKBOOK] Neues Bürgerlides Kochbuch. Hedwig Albrecht](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3448.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674570771)
Dresden: Max Fisher's Berlagsbuchhandlung, 1898. Hardcover. 333 pages. 18.5 x 14 cm. Translation: New Home Cookbook Recipes and remedies from Eastern Central Germany. Noted recipes for special occasions and holidays. Featuring a year-long menu, broken down by month. Home apothecary cures contain three to four different options for each ailment..... More
![Item #4255 [CULINARY] [MANUSCRIPT] Handwritten Cookbook. Martha C. Alley](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4255.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718123809)
Rockland, ME: c. 1940-60's. Hardcover. 88 pages. 28 x 21 cm. One can tell, looking at Martha's cookbook, she LOVED to bake. There are over 35 pie recipes, over 40 cake recipes, and many cookie, bread, and muffin recipes to round out the baking side of her writing. Along with..... More
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. and Brother, 1829. Hardcover. 456 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. If one wants to live off the grid, this is the book for you. This book literally has EVERYTHING under one cover, including, How to make any type of paint, paper hanging, dying, brewing, distillation, engraving..... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, And Webb, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 441 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Catherine Beecher was the eldest daughter in one of the most remarkable families of the 19th century. Catherine was the daughter of Lyman Beecher and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Hardcover. 1112 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Over one hundred years after the first edition of Beeton's Book of Household Management was first published, this first facsimile copy brought this classic cookbook back into American homes. Mrs. Beeton's advice to 'the Mistress', for..... More
![Item #4526 [WOMEN] [DIARY] Event-filled 1903 daily diary - full year; The Standard DIARY 1903....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739323691)
Pitcher, Chenango, New York: 1903. Cardboard covers. Kate (Catherine Hakes) Blackman (Aug 31, 1840 - Aug 17, 1917) was born in Pitcher, New York, and raised on a farm, surrounded by many siblings. Kate later married her husband Birdsall Blackman and settled down on a farm in her hometown. Pitcher..... More
![Item #3917 [SUFFRAGE] VOTES FOR WOMEN! THE WOMAN'S REASON BECAUSE. Boston Equal Suffrage...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3917.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695853260)
Boston: The Libbie Printing Co., c. 1919. Loose_leaf. 24 x 18.5 cm. Broadside calling for EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN. Summoning those who might not see the need for Equality, this broadside states "BECAUSE" ten times, while providing various arguments and each time, ending with "They should vote equally..... More
![Item #3918 [SUFFRAGE] WOMEN IN THE HOME; How Far Can the Mother Control These Things? Boston...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3918.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695853260)
Boston: c. 1919. Loose_leaf. 24 x 18.5 cm. Broadside expressing the infuriating position women find themselves in without the right to vote. "We are forever being told that the place of woman is in the HOME." But in reality, all of the tasks and achievements of women are dependent on..... More
Bernard Geis Associates, 1969. Stated First Edition. 405 pages. 24 x 16 cm. From the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan comes a saucy cookbook that shows its swagger with chapter titles such as Come fry with me, You love you (food to take to bed), He's mad for sports (and for..... More
![Item #4253 [HOMEMADE] COOKBOOKS. Virginia Lee Brown](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4253.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718123723)
Attleboro, Massachusetts: 1950-60's. Sewn binding. 10 books of various sizes. Virginia Lee Brown (1918-1989) was a dedicated homemaker outside Boston during the mid-century. Her love of cooking is evident here in all these books she made to keep in her kitchen, reminding her "what's for dinner?" Besides the one store-bought..... More
New York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1814. Hardcover. 316 pages. 18.5 x 11 cm. [9 plates]. An interesting copy of this first New York edition - it is one of those odd copies with some printing irregularities that make it just a little more appealing. Originally this copy SHOULD..... More
Boston: CARTER, HENDEE AND BABCOCK, 1831. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 18 x 12 cm. To Which Are Added Hints to Persons of Moderate Fortune. First Published in the Massachusetts Journal. Corrected and Arranged by the Author. Owner's signature in beautiful calligraphic hand on front free flyleaf: "Almira Towne/Kennebunk Port..... More
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Hardcover. 327 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. The author skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. Dishing It Out contends that the..... More