Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(FOOD AND DRINK.) Child, Lydia Maria. Domestic Economy: "The True Economy of House Keeping." Letterpress broadside, 22 x 27 1/4 inches; mounted on linen as issued, tacked to contemporary rollers on top and bottom, varnished and toned, minor dampstaining visible on verso, several small cracks with two 1/2-inch areas of loss in text area. Np, circa 1830

Additional Details

A broadside printing of selected revised passages from Child's popular Frugal Housewife cookbook. A stated 27th edition (actually, "Twentg-seventh Edition"), but only the third edition of the much scarcer broadside version which we have traced. This edition not listed in BAL (cf 3105 and 3106 for apparently earlier broadside editions circa 1830). One copy in OCLC, at the American Antiquarian Society.