Peg Woffington: Choice Recipes by Experienced Housewives of St. John's Guild, Pleasantville, New York

Brooklyn, New York: The Pearl Press, 375 Pearl Street, 1908. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 87 pages. Advertisements throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive community cookbook, from the aptly named Westchester County hamlet of Pleasantville. It's unclear the connection between Pleasantville's St John's Guild and Peg Woffington. Margaret "Peg" Woffington was a popular 18th century English actress, linked romantically to David Garrick. A tea house in Teddington, UK, with a two hundred fifty year history, was established by Woffington, but otherwise the connection seems tenuous. A few small stains on the front board of black and red printed cloth binding, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC shows four copies].