[COOKERY & WINE]. ZIEMANN, Hugo and Mrs. F.L. GILLETTE. The White House Cook Book. A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of information for the home. New York, Akron, OH, and Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1923. Illustrated plates. Original pictorial grey cloth stamped in black (some overall wear, a few leaves becoming loose). Provenance: Cyrus B. and Edna Summers (gift inscription from Helen Turner). Later edition of this work first published in 1887, dedicated to “the wives of our Presidents. Those noble women who have graced the White House and whose names and memories are dear to all Americans.”

[COOKERY & WINE]. ZIEMANN, Hugo and Mrs. F.L. GILLETTE. The White House Cook Book. A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of information for the home. New York, Akron, OH, and Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1923. Illustrated plates. Original pictorial grey cloth stamped in black (some overall wear, a few leaves becoming loose). Provenance: Cyrus B. and Edna Summers (gift inscription from Helen Turner). Later edition of this work first published in 1887, dedicated to “the wives of our Presidents. Those noble women who have graced the White House and whose names and memories are dear to all Americans.”

[With:]

HOLLOWAY, Laura C. The Ladies of the White House: or, In the Home of the Presidents. Philadelphia and Boston: Bradley & Company, R.H. Curran & Co., 1882. Numerous illustrations. Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gold and black, edges gilt (some wear). Later edition including biographies of First Ladies from Martha Washington through Lucretia Garfield, as well as a description of the White House.