Description
Fine dust jacket, silhouette on the dust jacket cover with brown and black lettering (Booke is the archaic spelling of book), brown and black lettering on the spine with a rolling pin on the rear cover, he rear flap shows a scuff on the barcode. The Fine condition binding is beige cloth over boards with a black decoration of MW initials, spine has black lettering, rear cover has no markings. The binding is tight and pages are clean, decorated endpapers. Black-and-white illustrations can be found throughout the book. The book measures 3.3″ wide x 3.8″ tall. Dust Jacket design by Maura Fadden Rosenthal.
Andrews and McMeel Publishing “no additional printing” is the designation of a first edition. (reference Identification of First Editions)
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
Martha Washington’s Books of Cookery
MANY OF THE RECIPES in this homey little collection, used by Martha Washington herself, date back to Elizabethan England. They all give a sense of our rich colonial heritage. Here you will discover how “To Make An Humble Pie” and learn the traditional method “To Pickle Cucumbers Greene.” American cooks of all ages will be delighted and intrigued by this window into the kitchen of America’s first First Lady.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
In 1748, Martha Custis Washington (1732-1802) married her first husband and was given the cook book from which these recipes were taken. Later widowed, she married George Washington on January 6, 1759、 The rest 1s history.
