Kellogg Mrs E E Ella Ervilla (1 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. A Good Book Issued without a Dust Jacket. Extremities worn from rubbing, soiled, and sunned. Scuffs, discoloration, and staining across boards. Text block is toned/darkened. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii Advertisements], [2], 3-184pp. + [viii Advertisements]. Not in Atwater. Not in Cagle & Stafford. . A Charming Volume Providing Significant Insight into the History of Kellogg's and the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Mrs. E. E. Kellogg's cooking and home economic book is straightforward enough, though the current is occasionally pulled to reveal the marketing motive. Less subtle are the ads for Kellogg owned patent medicine and health machine products. A piece that demonstrates how blurred the lines between medicine and snake oil had become at the end of the 19th century, and offer a wonderfully convincing argument for the creation of the FDA 10 years following. Publisher's Illustrated Boards, Backed in Green Cloth. …