Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery with chapters on domestic servants their rights and duties and many other details of household management

London: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Very Good -. London: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); xii, 432pp+1ad. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates, including frontis. Boards full bound in dark brown cloth with red and black decoration and gilt stamping. Wrapped in a vernacular added dust jacket in cream muslin, sewn to itself at both pastedowns and ghosts of writing to spine and front, likely the title. Muslin jacket rubbed, soiled, and worn, with loss to spine and corners; it seems to have adhered either purposefully or over time and use. Boards underneath seem bumped and lightly scuffed. Top edge dust soiled, cracked after half title, and starting at rear endsheet, with binding shaky but stable. A few pages throughout, including the last page of ads, have pulled away from the binding and are loosely laid in, though their fore-edges are chipped. A Very Good copy.

There is a previous owner name to first pastedown, obscured by the jacket ends meeting (Baker? 1901?). There is another, clearer, owner name to the title page of a Mrs. J. Hobart Warren. Harriette Mott Warren, nee Coulter, was a New York socialite and the second wife of an iron manufacturer at the turn of the 20th century. This volume might have been used regularly, and indeed looks like it was. The clear thumbprint on the title page might even be hers.