Product Description
The first edition of this volume of 144 recipes written by the wife of William Penn in the seventeenth century, a curious work, signed by the editor.
The first edition.
Signed by the editor to the recto of the front endpaper, "For the Misses McClelland, with fond memories of Mombara, Oct 1966, Evelyn A.
Benson, Xmas 1966.
"In the original unclipped dust wrapper.
This work publishes, for the first time, the recipes handwritten by the first wife of William Penn, Gulielma.
The one hundred and forty four recipes had been passed down as a manuscript, discovered just prior to the publication by the Penn family.
An intriguing cookery work, showing the dishes prepared for the table of William Penn, and his illustrious guests in both England and America.
Penn was an influential Quaker who founded Pennsylvania.
Illustrated with one plate, and a few in-text illustrations.
Edited by Evelyn Abraham Benson, with a life of Gulielma.
In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Externally, smart.
Very light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine.
Editor's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper.
A few scattered spots to the fore edge and endpapers.
Dust wrapper is smart with minor edge wear, mostly to the head.
Spine is age-toned.
Light handling marks to the wraps.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine
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