The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

Regular price $100.00

Hardbound. Published in 1906 by The Picayune, New Orleans, LA. Bound by T. Fitzwilliam & Co. Limited, No. 324 Camp Street, New Orleans. 418 pages of recipes with additional local ads. Front cover is loosely attached, spine worn at both ends text is bound tight and solid, bright pages with a few pages containing light staining. Frontispiece has a full page picture of a black lady with a bandanna headpiece. Pasted bookplate on inside front cover of La Verna Rowe Davis wife of Louisiana historian and author Edwin Adams Davis. Ms. Davis had an extensive cookbook collection.  Good condition.