The Good Housekeeping Woman’s Home Cook Book by Curtis, Elizabeth Gordon - 1909

The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago, 1909; First Edition; tall narrow octavo (9 1/2" x 4 1/4"), 320 pages; illustrated boards. Legendary cook book by Elizabeth Gordon Curtis, with hundreds of recipes for breads, cakes, cookies, pies, pastries, cereals, cheese dishes, meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, eggs, soups, sandwiches, canapes, salads, frozen and hot desserts, beverages, and invalid cookery, each kitchen tested by Good Housekeeping Magazine and the New England School Of Cookery. Twelve b&w halftone photo illustration plates at the front. Blank memoranda pages at the end of each chapter for notes or the addition of personal recipes. Fine, in leather-grained oil cloth boards with art nouveau design and original brass ring hanger at the top. Clean, crisp, bright, binding tight, sound and square, no ownership signatures or text markings of any sort. Neat handwritten recipe for Plum Conserve on the last memoranda page at the back. A true first edition in exceptional condition of a scarce and much sought after cook book.