The Vegetarian Cook Book

FULTON, E. G.

Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Company

Location: Mountain View, CA

Date: 1904

Binding: Octavo, original full bound illustrated cloth boards. Second edition (first published in April 1904, 266 pp.). 268, [2, ads], [1, blank] pp. This second edition adds an extra leaf, paged 177-78, with recipes for Horlick's products (advertised at the back).

Edition: FIRST EDITION

Printing: 2nd State

Description:

First Edition, Second State of The Vegetarian Cook Book by E. G. Fulton, a very important cookbook and piece of culinary history. Presenting in Near Fine Condition, unread in some areas. A tremendous example and potential centerpiece of any culinary collection. 

An early modern American vegetarian cookbook that includes numerous recipes for protose (a gluten- and peanut-based food) and nuttolene, health foods invented and marketed by Kellogg's Sanitas Nut Food Co. (among the advertisers in the book). The author's introductory note, "Why I was impressed to write a cook book," mentions the widespread and pressing concerns about food safety and purity. With a short list of vegetarian restaurants and sanitariums worldwide. 

Condition:

Very Good Plus Book. Book binding tight and square. Original full bound cloth boards unfaded and still richly colored with only a small scratch with some surrounding fading to front and barely noticeable spots on rear. Light wear to hinges and head and foot of spine. Light rubbing to corners and fore-edge and mild spotting to text blocks. Internally Fine but for a couple spots on front pastedown and endpaper. A remarkably clean and well-preserved example.