St. Johns's Kitchen. Compiled by the Ladies of St. John's Eiscopal Church, Sharon, PA

Hardcover, original publication - not a reprint. 292 pages with 16 pages of ads for local businesses of Sharon and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (eight pages of ads in the front and eight pages in rear). Original owner's name (Sallie P. Robinson) signed on last end page as well as the page before. Dark green/black boards are covered with some sort of butcher paper. Unfortunately, this paper was permanently affixed. Chocolate brown end pages show no cracking. No torn or loose pages noted. Includes 19th century recipes for meats, soups, fish, breads, cakes and pies, custards and creams, pickles and spiced fruits, salads, etc. Page 273 has sick room and nursery remedies followed by sundries, curing meat, making soap, cleaning metals, getting rid of rats, and other topics you don't expect to find in a cookbook. A few pages has some pencil annotations, this rarely is appearing in the book and could always be erased if desired, but Sallie saw these as improvements two just a few recipes. The penciled annotations are short and appeared to be limited to perhaps four or five pages, a few small spots noted just a couple pages as well. Overall, the book would be graded as VG to near fine but the paper glued to the exterior boards lowers the grading (G-). This is the earliest known copy of this cookbook that we have found listed but that.…