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(Confectionery) Anna Martin Richardson. Home Made Candies and Other Good Things Sweet and Sour.

$85.00

94 pp. Brown cloth. First Edition. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1890.

A charming little book of 19th century American candies, including Aunt Sarah's bread pudding, strawberry shrub, stuffed figs, preserved violet leaves, pink sugar sand, mead syrup, almond bird's nest, preserved raspberry sherbet, peppermint stick. Page 12 with old tape repairs to margins and darkening to several pages in middle, else very good.