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

$225.00

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.

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.

 

ALBERT EINSTEIN March 1939 Photograph by Elizabeth G C Menzies First Official Woman Photographer at Princeton University

LAKE CARNEGIE in Princeton New Jersey a Raw Grain Woodcut by Elizabeth G C Menzies Woman Photographer Artist and Author

“Betty” Menzies’ Reviews: First Woman to Have Three Concurrent Exhibitions in Princeton in 1956

Betty Menzies’ MILLSTONE VALLEY Praised by Julian Boyd as, “a product of the intellect of a scholar, the heart of a concerned citizen, and the hand of an artist.”