GOOD-LIVING, a Practical Cookery-Book for town and Country (Household Edition) Thried Edition, with Additional Material

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. (USA) 3rd edition. There is an owner's faint name stamp to the front fly, there are some stains to the cover boards (not bad), some faint spots to page edges, some wear to spine edges and edges of cover, consistent with the books age, pages generally clean, Good copy; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Putty coloured boards with titles in brown, pattenred end papers, xiv, 643pp, index, decorative chapter headers, no illus. per se. This book is copyright 1890; this the third edition 1908 with a new chapter and index. The author writes her preface from Antwerp, Belgium. This is a tremnsoud collection of recipes (perhaps 1000) drawn from French culinary traditions. The recipes are presented in the style of older cookery books , quite brief without the ingredients lists and presumes some fore-knowledge of cookery methods. The original preface includes a list of sources consulted from Mrs. Beeton, Mrs. Rorer and Miss Parloa to Careme and Soyer. Additionally the author references that the cuisine included is selected from "the best and most popular dishes of the Eastern States [...]; of Philadelphia [...]; from Baltimore and the South, many of the excellent dishes so well prepared by the negro cooks; and from further South still, we have the many delicious receipts furnished by the Creole school of cookery" (3.2 JM HOQ 100/3. 3rd. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".