Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to Do & What Not to Do in Cooking
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Hardcover. Short 8vo., 3/4 brown cloth w/marbled boards, 536pp., general index, alphabetical index, 15pp. advertisements at rear. -- Cloth slit along the rear outer joint for about 4 inches at the top portion of the spine, front & back hinge cracked, center signature pulled, general rubbing and bumping to extremities. Good. Item #9
"Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was an influential Boston cooking teacher and cookbook author. She used Mrs. D.A. Lincoln as her professional name during her husband's lifetime and in her published works; after his death, she used Mary J. Lincoln.[ Considered one of the pioneers of the Domestic Science movement in the United States, she was among the very first to address the scientific and nutritional basis of food preparation."-wikipedia.
Price: $25.00