Easy steps in cooking : or, Mary Frances among the kitchen people / by Jane Eayre Fryer ; full page illustrations by Margaret G. Hays ; other illustrations by Jane Allen Boyer.

Author
Fryer, Jane Eayre, 1876- [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oakland, Calif. : Smithsonian Company, c1912.
Description
[iii]-viii, [3], 12-175 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 24 cm.

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    • Title within ornamental border.
    • Published also under tile: The Mary Frances cook book; or, Adventures among the kitchen people.
    • The cooking pot is black with bright red lips, dispute in which the pot calls the kettle black p. 44-45.
    • The color plates and many of the red and black illustrations by Jane Allen Boyer in an Arts and Crafts style. The illustrations by Margaret Hays are sadly inferior, being stiff and unimaginative, including the cover design.
    • In one chapter Mary Frances prepares a cup of tea and an omelet for a tramp, but is warned against doing so by her father.
    • This title published in the same year by Winston in Philadelphia.
    • CTSN copy: Signed Doris Caster on front pastedown and frontis.; signed Doris Melissa on rear pastedown.
    • CTSN copy: Cover label soiled and chipped; boards soiled and worn at edges and corners; spine faded and worn; e.p. yellowed, paper smudged.
    Binding note
    Pub. olive cloth, col. Illus label. Black title on spine.
    Other title(s)
    Mary Frances among the kitchen people
    OCLC
    39153189
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