(FOOD AND DRINK) Emerson Lucy The New England Cookery

Sale 2263 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 780

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(FOOD AND DRINK.) Emerson, Lucy. The New-England Cookery. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 leather, worn with some loss to boards; lacking front pastedown, leaf F6 defective with slight loss; early owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Montpelier, VT, 1808

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First and only edition, based on Amelia Simmons's American Cookery (see below). Intended "not so much for the Lady of fashion, and fortune, as for those in the more humble walks of life, who by the loss of parents, or other unfortunate circumstances, are reduced to indigence." Includes recipes for wine and beer. Cagle 235; Lowenstein 48; McCorison, Vermont 988.