Published by Privately Printed; [Women's Department of the World's Columbian Exposition]; R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Printers; A. Zeese & Company, Portraits; A.J. Cox & Company, Binders., Chicago, 1893
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 221, [1], 23 unnumbered leaves of plates. 8vo., measuring 22 cm. Bright yellow cloth over boards with gilt lettering and cream decoration and ornaments to front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Black and white photographic frontispiece of Shuman. Replete with many black and white illustrations, portraits, photographs, facsimile signatures of contributors et al. Extremities rubbed with what appear to be erasure marks, bumping to spine ends, corners, 1/2 inch black ink-mark to the front board. Contents in remarkably bright, clean and unmarked condition with tight, sound binding. Included are sections on: Tea, Chocolate, Cocoa, Coffee, Bread, Oysters, Soup, Fish, Shell Fish, Frog Legs, Pies, Sauces, Preserves, Game, Ice Cream, Cakes, and much more. Each recipe is followed by the name, facsimile signature, title, and state of the contributor. A good+ copy of an increasingly scarce and sought after cookery title. No known copies available in commerce at time of cataloguing. Overall, good+. "Favorite Dishes" was compiled and published in commemoration of the World's Columbian Exposition - also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition - being held in Chicago in 1893 in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. From the foreword: "Favorite Dishes is due to the fact that the noble women who have labored for the best interests of mankind and womankind, in the development of the Women's Department of the World's Columbia Exposition, found time to contribute this collection of recipes, as a means of enabling the compiler to open an additional avenue for women to provide the necessary funds to pay the expenses of a visit to the Exposition.".