American cookery, or The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake : adapted to this country, and all grades of life / by Amelia Simmons, an American orphan.

"First edition, second printing. 48pp. Woodcut decoration. Contemporary wraps (frayed), probably original. This is a pefect copy in superb condition: crisp, entirely untrimmed and wide-margined; a single owner's signature else unmarked and without blemish. Early editions of this work are exceedingly...

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