Round Robin Cook Book: containing five hundred favorite recipes, collected and published by the ladies of The First Baptist Church

Lowell, Mass: First Baptist Church, 1899. Squarish octavo (17.5 x 14 cm.), 184 pages. Includes 50 pages of advertisements. Publication date inferred from ads. Stated FIRST EDITION. A handsome community cookbook from Lowell, Mass. with short narrative recipes attributed. Divided into sections on Soups, Meat, Fish and Game, Eggs, Bread, Puddings and more. More than one quarter of the book is given over to advertisements for local businesses. Age-toned throughout, with a few small stains, in publisher's attractively printed white, morocco-grained cloth. Some general wear and soiling to the cloth, otherwise near very good. Scarce. [OCLC indicates two copies, (Kansas State, Schlesinger) additional copy at University of Rhode Island, Kingston; not in Brown, Cook or Cagle].