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Beadle’s Dime Recipe Book: a Directory for the parlor nursery sick room and toilet for the kitchen larder etc. by Mrs. Victor
18639607New York: Beadle and Company Publishers 118 William Street 1863. Octavo 16 x 10.5 cm. vii-x 11-99 pages. Stated "Revised and Enlarged Edition"; originally published 1859. The Dime Recipe Book serves as companion to the Dime Cook Book that was published just fourteen days earlier in July 1859; second in the series of Beadle's Housekeeper’s Hand Books. "The first edition has . 100 pages . A revised edition of the same size and with buff wrappers was issued by Irwin P. Beadle & Co. and was copyrighted December 19 1862. It has 72 sic pages." Johannsen A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels. ~ Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1831-1885 was author of more than one hundred dime novels including Alice Wilde 1860 the first dime novel; and the Dead Letter 1866 considered the first full-length work of crime fiction. The salmon-colored wrappers depict a young woman carefully pouring a liquid into a beaker. In front of her a scale and mortar and pestle sit on a table; and behind her a cabinet with small drawers indicating more of an apothecary’s shop than a kitchen. The recipes do indeed lean more toward medical and household recipes but a section for the kitchen is included as well. ~ Internally age-toned; rubbing to the corners. Publisher's faded salmon-colored wrappers lacking a 1 cm. chip from lower right corner; closed tears to wrapper at spine. A single thick stitch with a loop of cord was added by a homemaker seeking to hang the book on a nail or hook. Better than good. Very scarce. OCLC locates four copies of this enlarged edition and four copies of the 1859 first; Cagle 782 notes the 1859 first edition only; not in Lowenstein the Dime Cook Book of 1860 is included not in Bitting includes the Dime Cook Book 1864; Johannsen vol. 1 pages 373 & 375 no. 2. Beadle and Company, Publishers, 118 William Street unknown
