Beadle's Dime Recipe Book: a Directory for the parlor, nursery, sick room and toilet, for the kitchen, larder, etc. by Mrs. Victor

New York: Beadle and Company, Publishers, 118 William Street, 1863. Octavo (16 x 10.5 cm.), [vii]-x, [11]-99] pages. Stated "Revised and Enlarged Edition"; originally published 1859. The Dime Recipe Book serves as companion to the Dime Cook Book that was published just fourteen days earlier in July 1859; second in the series of Beadle's Housekeeper's Hand Books. "The first edition has ... 100 pages ... A revised edition of the same size and with buff wrappers was issued by Irwin P. Beadle & Co. and was copyrighted December 19, 1862. It has 72 [sic] pages..." (Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels). ~ Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885) was author of more than one hundred dime novels, including Alice Wilde (1860) the first dime novel; and the Dead Letter (1866) considered the first full-length work of crime fiction. The salmon-colored wrappers depict a young woman carefully pouring a liquid into a beaker. In front of her, a scale and mortar and pestle sit on a table; and behind her a cabinet with small drawers, indicating more of an apothecary's shop than a kitchen. The recipes do indeed lean more toward medical and household recipes, but a section for the kitchen is included as well. ~ Internally age-toned; rubbing to the corners. Publisher's faded salmon-colored wrappers lacking a 1 cm. chip from lower right corner; closed tears to wrapper at spine. A single thick stitch with a loop of cord was added by a homemaker seeking to hang the book on a nail or hook. Better than good. Very scarce. [OCLC locates four copies of this enlarged edition (and four copies of the 1859 first); Cagle 782 notes the 1859 first edition only; not in Lowenstein (the Dime Cook Book of 1860 is included), not in Bitting (includes the Dime Cook Book 1864); Johannsen, vol. 1, pages 373 & 375, no. 2]. (Inventory #: 9607)