The American Book of Cookery: Containing more than five hundred receipts in every variety of cookery never before published. Together with the family cleanser and dyer, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cleaning and Dying Clothing and Goods of Every Description; Adapted to the Use of Families. Also, a New Theory and Practice of Family Medicine, Never before Offered to the Public, the Receipts of Which Cost More Than $500; and the New Mode of Washing, with Receipts for Making the Popular Washing Fluids Now in Use, and Sold at a High Price. [cover title: New American Book of Cookery, and the Housekeeper's Assistant, Price 25 Cts.]

Boston: Published by J.B. Hall, Sold at Skinner's Publishing House, 1851. Duodecimo (16.8 x 10 cm.), 110, [2] pages. Final leaf contains "Table of Contents of the American Ladies' Memorial". Wrapper title is "New American Book..." FIRST EDITION. This humble housekeeping manual is divided into four parts: recipes; family cleanser and dyer; family medicine; and a new theory of washing. Included are recipes for various cleaning fluids. Some staining throughout with dog-ears and a closed tear to the final leaf; but the text block remains sound. Original publisher's tan wrapper, decorated with woodcut illustrations of household activities. The wrappers are spotted and have chipping to edges. Good only, but scarce in the original wrapper. [OCLC locates twenty-two copies of all printings; Cagle 710; Lowestein 498; not in Bitting].