The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book : Old Recipes : Fannie Merritt Farmer 1929

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boiston, 1929. Hardback book in original dust jacket. Tall 8vo. Cloth binding with titles stamped in brwon. pp xvi, 808, [32 pages of adverts]. Illustrated with b&w plates.

CONDITION
A very good early copy and still with its original dust jacket which is in good condition with just some minimal wear around the edges (see iamges provided). The boards and spinea re in very good clean condition. Endpapers very good. Name to front endpaper. All contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a very good early copy of this famous cook-book.

ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (originally published 1896) by Fannie Farmer is a 19th-century general reference cookbook which is still available both in reprint and in updated form. It was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point. This compilation of recipes became the best-selling cookbook of the era.

When Little, Brown & Company was preparing the first edition of Fannie Farmer's cookbook, they were not confident it would sell well. As such, the first edition, released in 1896, had a limited run of only 3,000 copies. It proved an immediate success.

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