The Mary Frances Cook Book by Jane Eayre Fryer 1912 with the Signed Childhood Bookplate of Betty Menzies

Description

Fryer, Jane Eayre. The Mary Frances Cook Book  or Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Jane Eayre Fryer. Full-page  illustrations by Margaret G. Hays. Other illustrations by Jane Allen Boyer. Philadelphia: The John Winston Company, 1912. 175 pages, 9 ¼ in. Blue cloth, with a color lithographed paste-down on the front cover. This copy has the childhood bookplate of Elizabeth (“Betty”) G.C. Menzies, the first official woman photographer at Princeton University, signed by her as a child. A presentation inscription to Betty Menzies dated 1923. Fine condition.

 

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