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A bound run of 36 issues of the popular Philadelphia domestic science magazine founded by grocer and civic leader, Finley Acker, in 1886. Acker quickly recruited the popular Philadelphia cooking teacher, writer and lecturer Sarah Tyson Rorer ("the 1890s forerunner of Julia Child") whose Philadelphia Cook Book had been published that year to great acclaim. Rorer's columns were the magazine's most popular, particularly "Housekeepers Inquiries" where she answered questions from readers on the preparation and serving of food. In "New Things for Table and Kitchen," she tested new utensils, appliances and ingredients and provided her stamp of approval on those she favored, which became an early form of commercial testimonials, which later became one of her subspecialties. Other Table Talk columns included Fashionable Crazes by Kate Catherwood & Fashionable Luncheon and Tea Toilets edited by Tillie May Forney. Each issue also included a menu for the month, poetry, other articles on domestic science, and a frontis. etc. Rorer left Table Talk in 1893 to found her own magazine called Household News. Thirty-six issues bound in three ½" leather, ½" cloth volumes with raised bands and gilt to spines; iv, 488, [2]; iv, 482; iv, 448 p., plates, illustrations. Vol. VII has the Nov. cover bound in the rear with pages of affixed newspaper clipping related to Rorer. Leather is worn in places, although mostly to corner tips. A VG or better set. Seller Inventory # 07702
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