Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(FOOD & DRINK.) Phineas Thornton. The Southern Gardener and Receipt Book. 8, [6], 330 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; the 3 index leaves tipped in as cancels, lacking free endpapers, foxing, a few paper clip stains; original owner's inscription on front flyleaf. [South Carolina]: Printed for the author, 1840
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The first 73 pages are devoted to gardening, followed by 66 pages on "Cookery Made Plain and Easy": recipes for baked goods, desserts, preserves, alcoholic beverages, and more. Okra soup on page 109 would seem to be the most distinctively southern. Next is a long "Collection of Receipts for Domestic Purposes" such as textile dyes and insecticides; and concluding with sections on human and veterinary medicine.

This is an unusual variant issue. The title page is followed by 3 index leaves and a blank tipped in as cancels. The index only covers pages 82 onward. It is followed by an unnumbered section title leaf for "Instructions for Working a Kitchen Garden," and then by a two-page preface for the gardening section by Thornton, with the second page numbered "12" (though it would be the 14th preliminary). The main section of the book then begins with gathering 2. Cagle, American Books on Food & Drink 744 (another issue with a similar but different arrangement of cancel leaves); Lowenstein, Early American Cookery 257 (issue in 334 pages with no cancels); Shaw & Shoemaker 6599.