Woman's Favorite Cook Book; Three Books in One Volume

Hardcover tall, thick octavo of 9 5/8 inches tall. Antiquarian book of grayish white pebbled leatherette, stamped in red and black on the cover and the spine. The cover illustration is of a woman in an apron holding a steaming platter containing a covered dish, with a lobster and a pot of boiling water in the foreground. The book is not a salesman's dummy but the complete text of three books in one volume, replete with black and white and colored illustrations, although I think some of the illustrations are missing, as the final page says the book cotains 610 pages with the illustrations added in the last folio at the end , after the 578th page. The pagination ends at page 578. It doesn't appear to have 16 to 32 leaves missing at the end, but it is hard to be certain. I believe that they were never added. There are many illustrations throughout the text, and a list of illustrations at the beginning, lacking page numbers. The book is poor to fair only, With the cover separated from the rear of the spine and folded around the front. The first 8 pages are loose sheets, but the rest are still firmly attached to the intact spine under the cover. The paper is of very poor quality and is edge tanned through out, and very brittle, with tiny chips tending to break off as the pages are turned. However it is clean and all there, with the possible exception of the afore mentioned illustrations, and still fully readable throughout. This is a scarce antiquarian cookbook, with most of the available copies listed as salesman's dummies. This one has the full text. It is kind of a community cookbook, as the author states that she is assisted by one thousand Homekeepers, and most of the recipes feature initials of the contributors. The text and recipes are "approved and endorsed by A. Chabrison, for ten years chef of The Union League Club, Chicago, now of The Grand Pacific Hotel." 578 pp. Cookbook, Antiquarian, Scarce original, Community cookbook.…