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The Virginia house-wife / by Mary Randolph ; with historical notes and commentaries by Karen Hess.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 no.386
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Virginia.
- Cooking.
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- cookbooks.
- Cookbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1984.
- Contents:
- Historical notes and commentaries on The Virginia House-wife
- The facsimile of The Virginia House-wife (1824)
- Appendixes: I. Bibliographical notes on The Virginia House-wife
- II. Recipes that first appeared in the 1825 edition
- III. Plans for home refrigerator and tub, with accompanying explanations, from the 1825 edition, in facsimile
- IV. Recipes that first appeared in the 1828 edition
- Chart from Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824
- Historical Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- "A facsimile of the first edition, 1824, along with additional material from the editions of 1825 and 1828, thus presenting a complete text."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0872494233
- 9780872494237
- OCLC:
- 10021401
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