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THE WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK: Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing; The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home By Mrs. P.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, Stewart of the White House. Chicago/[Baltimore, Md.]: , (1887/1999). First facsimile edition thus, first printing. First printing letter code sequence A through M to the copyright page. A facsimile of the Werner 1887 'New and Enlarged Edition' that includes a generous supply of decorative type headings, illustrations, and drawings. Classic detailed recipes and instructions developed at and for the White House, and with the input of the First Ladies. Lovely deluxe binding gift item. Just a hint of rubbing to the corner tips, else very nearly fine in imitation smooth blue leather with decoratively embossed gilt titles and decoratively bordered gilt embossed illustrations of the White House and The Capitol to the front cover, gilt embossed decorations, rules and titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, and all page edges gilt; no dust jacket, as issued. Large royal octavo; 570 pages. Measures & Weights; Index; plus Werner's original preface; plus contents pages. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT HISTORIES THANKS! |