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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
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The for-sale edition at Amazon to which I alluded is the one
here. I didn't think to search for another edition and/or cheaper edition. I typically do not check Gutenberg at all. So, thanks for the additional information.
Unfortunately, I found no information on the webpage of the for-sale ebook giving its edition, and there wasn't a preview option for this book so as to check the title page for that information. The book's webpage at Amazon mentioned that it came from the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection; it also mentioned the American Antiquarian Society (
webage here) as the source of the Collection. That organization has all of the markings of a prestigious one; if they had more than one edition of the cookbook, I have to believe that they would have chosen what they considered to be the very best one that they had, for McMeel Publishing to use.
I think that peeps will be disappointed in the quality of the free Amazon edition other than the text itself, which is not a facsimile like the one that I posted. Frankly, it's kind of cheesy. For example, there is an illustration just a few pages into the book of a young woman in high heels sweeping the floor, all while wearing a uniform something like a waitress wears in a Playboy Club (no, I haven't been in one) but in a maid's motif instead of a bunny motif! There are illustrations of various kinds, but the ones that I saw (also) are anachronistic--i.e., they don't fit the time period in which the book is written.
I don't know what edition that the free one is. There is nothing that I can see that states it. That's annoying. I searched for the most recent edition for posting, assuming that it would be the best one. I've seen a few books that went through two or more editions, however, in which an(the) older one was actually the superior one.