[Lucy Lilly Temple]Home Made Candies With Lessons. [By] Lucy Lilly Temple -

[Richmond, Virginia: The Author]; Richmond, VA.: I. N. Jones Print, 1901. A single gathering sewn on red cord and bound in cloth (18 x 14 cm.), 29 pages. Printer from colophon. Date extrapolated from handwritten inscription. Decorated endpapers. Evident first edition. A very satisfactory and attractively designed guide, with twenty-one recipes for confectioneries that can be made in the home without the professional "appliances and utensils" mentioned in the author's introductory remarks. The majority are helpfully arranged across page openings, with ingredients to the left and directions ("lessons") to the right. There is something scrupulous about the author's claims to priority in publication of her Black Walnut Nougat, while the Brandied Peaches are acknowledged to derive from a "valuable old Virginia receipt." The Peppermint Wafers, Marrons, and Palm Nuts ought not be overlooked, but pride of place may belong to the most "difficult of manufacture," the Orange Pastes, cut in squares or diamonds. Lucy Lilly Temple (1848-1935) moved to Richmond as a young woman from the family's North Virginia estate in Spotsylvania County, and resided in the center of town at 1112 West Avenue. The Temple name turns up frequently in historical society records from Colonial times to the last century, and Lucy's correspondence is included among the papers of her parents and siblings that await the attention of historians. ~ Several pages spot-stained, otherwise clean; hinges shaken. In publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Near very good. Gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. "Miss M. R. Wallace, -1901-, Compliments of J. T. Temple". Scarce. [OCLC locates no undated copy, two copies dated 1909, and another assigned 1915; not in Brown, Cagle, or Cook].