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![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title].](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/site/S.I.7932_1-800.webp)
Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title]
H.J. Clayton · San Francisco
- Author
- H.J. Clayton
- Date
- 1883
- Place
- San Francisco
- Publisher
- Women's Co-Operative Printing Office
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5" x 7.75") Full green cloth with fancy blindstamp rule to covers, upper board with centered gilt title and decoration. Brown floral printed endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, foot of spine fraying with small loss. White stains to cover affecting gilt title (see pic) and smaller stain to rear. Prior owners name and date neatly to first free flyleaf. Glued photo as frontispiece lacking. Textblock with small amount of foxing. Of the 104 pps., the last 24 with many local San Francisco advertisements. Text block shaken, holding firm.
- Format
- This was the first California book that payed homage to locally grown, farm fresh ingredients.
- Category
- Cookery & Domestic
- Record
- S.I.7932
8vo.(5" x 7.75") 1883. San Francisco: Women's Co-Operative Printing Office. Full green cloth with fancy blindstamp rule to covers, upper board with centered gilt title and decoration. Brown floral printed endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, foot of spine fraying with small loss. White stains to cover affecting gilt title (see pic) and a smaller stain to rear. Prior owner's name and date neatly to first free flyleaf. Glued photo as frontispiece lacking. Textblock with small amount of foxing. Of the 104 pps., the last 24 with many local San Francisco advertisements. Text block shaken, holding firm. This was the first California book that paid homage to locally grown, farm fresh ingredients.
Condition
Good
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![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 2.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_2.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 3.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_3.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 4.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_4.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 5.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_5.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 6.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_6.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 7.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_7.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 8.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_8.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 9.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_9.jpg)
![Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book, Being a Practical Treatise on The Culinary Art Adapted to The Tastes and Wants of All Classes. With Plain and Easily Understood Directions for the Preparation of Every Variety of Food in the Most Attractive Forms. Comprising the Result of a Life-Long Experience in Catering to a Host of Highly Cultivated Tastes. [First Edition, Very Scarce Title] — photograph 10.](https://img.rarebookshelf.com/assets/etsy/S.I.7932_10.jpg)