The Hand and Cornucopia: containing excellent recipes for bread, biscuits, cakes, pastry, puddings, &c., in which are used Dr. Price's cream baking powder, Dr. Price's special flavoring extracts, Dr. Price's lemon sugar, and Steele & Price's lupulin yeast gems, all carefully tested and arranged in a simple and practical form for use in private families, hotels, restaurants, steamboats, the camp, etc., etc. ..

Chicago: Steele & Price, 1879. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 10 cm.), 80 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Though the book is copyright 1878, a testimonial printed on the wrapper front panel verso is dated February 15th, 1879. All testimonials within the text block are dated 1873-75. A promotional or product cookbook, advertising baking powder or yeast products made by the Price Baking Powder Company of Chicago, including Lupulin Yeast Gems. Internally sound and generally clean. In publisher's chromolithograph wrappers, with a tiny chip from the upper corner of the rear wrapper panel, otherwise very good. With the stamp of the local distributor to the rear panel, "compliments of D. Kleine, Fine Groceries, Downer's Grove, Il." Scarce. [OCLC locates twelve copies of this 1878;79 printing, and two copies of the slightly shorter second edition of 1884]. (Inventory #: 10145)