Penn Family Recipes: Cooking Recipes of Wm. Penn’s Wife, Gulielma. With an Account of the Life of Gulielma Maria Springett Penn, 1644–1694
York, Pennsylvania: George Shumway, 1966. First Edition. Signed Association Copy, Inscribed to Don Yoder. Octavo, vi, 213 pages, publisher's original dust jacket with the original price unclipped. Publisher's original orange cloth covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. Penn Family Recipes: Cooking Recipes of Wm. Penn’s Wife, Gulielma is an unusual Pennsylvania culinary and historical work, edited by Evelyn Abraham Benson and centered on recipes associated with Gulielma Maria Springett Penn, wife of William Penn. Combining early Quaker domestic history, Penn family tradition, and historic cookery, the book offers both a collection of period recipes and an account of Gulielma’s life, making it appealing to collectors of Pennsylvania history, Quaker material, women’s history, genealogy, and early American foodways. This copy is especially desirable as a signed association copy, inscribed by Benson to Don Yoder, a leading Pennsylvania folklorist, University of Pennsylvania professor, and influential scholar of Pennsylvania German culture, American folklife, folk religion, and regional foodways, and additionally signed by Benson on the title page. From the Roughwood library of William Woys Weaver, distinguished food historian and authority on Pennsylvania regional foodways. A small closed tear and some rubbing to the otherwise attractive dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear, else in very good + condition. Item #415
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