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2,000 copies. “Increasing scholarly attention is revealing her as a pivotal figure in the shift from early nineteenth-century utopian to Marxist economic socialism. Her insistence on the inextricability of class and gender oppression makes her a foundational socialist feminist theorist” (Orlando). Duodecimo. Uncut in original yellow wrappers printed in black. Housed in quarter calf chemise and slipcase. Slight split to front joint but holding, wrappers and contents clean, a very good, well-preserved copy. ¶ Claire Goldberg Moses, F rench Feminism in the Nineteenth Century , 1984. £4,500 [150437] 144 WALDMAN, Anne. Not a Male Pseudonym. New York City: Tender Buttons, 1990 First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Bernadette, ‘all good things arise’, undying love, Anne, May 1991”, with an original, apparently unpublished, poem inscribed on the rear wrapper recto; Waldman has additionally signed the limitation page and “lettered” the copy with a red love heart. The recipient was likely fellow performance poet Bernadette Mayer. Anne Waldman (b. 1945) is a writer, experimental poet, and lecturer connected to the Beat poets, in particular Allen Ginsberg, who once referred to Waldman as his spiritual wife. She is “known as one of the most influential performance poets of the 20th century”, founded the poetry journal Angel Hair , and was active in editing a number of other key Beat publications (Oakes). Octavo, pp. 32. Original illustrated wrappers. Photographic postcard mounted to front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to wrappers, negligible water mark to limitation page and rear wrapper. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Elizabeth H. Oakes, American Writers , 2004. £500 [161994]
bookplate and gilt crested monogram on the spine. Westbury was the compiler of thevery useful Handlist of Italian Cookery Books (1963), and was co-author of a book of Italian recipes, With Gusto and Relish (1957). This manuscript appeared at auction in 1965 as part of Sotheby’s two-day sale of Westbury’s extensive collection of rare and important culinary works. Small quarto (197 × 158 mm). Sometime neatly rebacked in green calf, original green vellum boards annotated in manuscript, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.Spine faded, front cover annotated in manuscript with what appears to be details of a chancery suit, extremities rubbed, short scratch to front cover, occasional spotting to contents. In excellent condition.¶ Sandra Sherman, Invention of the Modern Cookbook , 2010. £7,500 [161782] 143 TRISTAN, Flora. Union ouvrière. Paris: Prévot and Rouanet, 1843 Coining the slogan “workers of the world unite!” five years before the Communist Manifesto First edition of the revolutionary French socialist’s most famous work, urging the working class to unite, a call for international emancipation which appeared five years before the Communist Manifesto. Tristan is “perhaps the most celebrated of all 19th- century French feminists” (Moses, p. 107). Unable to find a publisher willing to print the unorthodox tract, she funded the book’s publication herself through donations from friends, acquaintances, and public appeal. From these donations, 14,000 copies of this first edition were printed (stated as “Edition populaire”), which she sold for 50 centimes each. In Lyons, the fundraising efforts of her working-class followers underwrote a further printing of 10,000 copies. Such circulation was very high for the time: the print run of the Communist Manifesto in 1848, by contrast, was
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142 TORR, Rebecca. Manuscript recipe book. [Westleigh, Devon,] 1770 more than a hundred years of recipes A fascinating artefact comprising over 200 pages of manuscript recipes carefully compiled over more than a century of use. The variant hands of Rebecca Torr and her descendants date the contributions through the late 18th to the 20th century, encompassing medical, culinary, and household topics, with contributions from family and community that open a window onto the Georgian household. The original compiler was Rebecca Torr ( née Hooley, 1742– 1818), who in September 1770, married James Torr of Westleigh, Devon, at St George’s, Hanover Square. The couple then moved to Westleigh, where the Torr family were lords of the manor. Her book includes recipes from dozens of women in the community, including a number from the mistresses of the nearby Tapeley Park estate, Mrs Clevland and, subsequently, Mrs Willet. The volume includes a large number of recipes for food and drink, including puddings, preserves, bread, wines, soups, beer, fish, poultry, game, beef, pork, cakes, biscuits, eggs, chocolate mousse, custard, and omelettes, in the hand of Rebecca and her daughter Lydia. Also included are recipes for useful household concoctions such as soap, insect repellent, ink, dyes, ointments, “liquor” for linens, varnish, vinegar, and plate cleaner, and there are remedies for ailments including
acne, asthma, tuberculosis, baldness, convulsions in children, cough, earache, toothache, rheumatism, chilblains. Most of the recipes have attributions, with dozens of donors named. The profuse accreditation of recipes in this volume is interesting in numerous ways, displaying as it does the interaction between oral and written cultures, the social settings of the compilers of the work, and identifying who amongst their circle were the most generous. Some recipes appear to be particularly esteemed and are annotated “approved”. This work is characteristic of the collaborative recipe books created by women as they fulfilled their roles as managers of the household. Early recipe books reflect the Latin origin of the word “recipe” itself, meaning “receive”; through their inherently communal creation, being “hand-written collections passed down within families, citing contributions by numerous individuals and often continually amended in a variety of hands” (Sherman). The legibility, scope, and abundancy of recipes collected here make this a particularly fine exemplar. An inscription on the title page shows that in 1809 Rebecca Torr passed the book to “my beloved daughter” Lydia ( c .1781–1845). In a further intergenerational transfer, the book passes into the ownership of her great-grandson, James Fenning Torr (1845–1915) and his wife, Beatrice Ettie de Jersey Torr (1864–1945). Notes by Fenning Torr appear throughout, and it is he who seems to have been the volume’s latter-day interpreter, commenting and identifying his ancestors. Provenance: from the library of Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, fourth Baron Westbury (1914–1961) with his
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