AMERICAN BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE COOKBOOK COLLECTION HOUSED IN THE LILLY LIBRARY AT THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth; 794 pages. According to the publisher, "This comprehensive bibliography describes the American cookbooks in the Gernon Collection housed at the Lilly Library. AMERICAN BOOKS and its British/European counterpart, A MATTER OF TASTE, fully describe over 2,300 works in gastronomic literature and are testaments to the collecting achievements of Dr. and Mrs. John Talbot Gernon. The collection was donated to the Lilly Library in 1979 by Dr. and Mrs. Gernon, and their European collection of cookbooks were added in 1984. A MATTER OF TASTE, which describes the collection's British and European works, was published in 1990. The Gernon Collection also includes books on agriculture and gardening, brewing, distilling and wine-making, health and diet, household management, and the operation of restaurants and hotels." (Inventory #: 019912)