Lincoln, Mary Johnson | One of the most famous American cookery books with distinguished provenance

Lincoln, Mary Johnson

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What To Do and What Not To Do in Cooking. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884

8vo (190 x 125 mm). 4pp. publisher's advertisements; short tear in blank margin of title-page, browned, endpapers stained. Original publishers half cloth over marbled boards; neatly rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed. Housed in a half morocco box with cloth chemise. 

First edition, first issue, the Streeter-Crahan-Day copy

One of the most famous American cookery books, "which marked a change in culinary literature. … While it instantly became the standard kitchen companion, it had still greater effect in shaping the course of early work in domestic science in grade and normal schools" (Grolier).

PROVENANCE

Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate) — Marcus and Elizabeth Crahan (bookplate, their sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, 10 October 1983, lot 630) — Keck Day (Sotheby's New York, 25 November 1986, lot 294)

REFERENCE

Crahan 74; Grolier/American 86; Streeter 7:4206