“Peter Rabbit Rummy,” published by E. E. Fairchild, encouraged players to collect incidents from the story of Peter Rabbit into sets. As the instructions helpfully point out, “For the story of Peter Rabbit, read the cards in sequence from 1 to 10.” There’s no date, but I’d guess they were done in the 1950s. The […]

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I recently picked up a copy of a book called End Papers, by a certain A. Edward Newton, who apparently accumulated a famous book collection in the ’20s. It’s a selection of literary essays and book reviews, published by Little, Brown, and Co. in 1933. I was surprised to find in it a couple of […]

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I recently picked up a copy of the Rumford Complete Cook Book, by Lily Haxworth Wallace, published in 1934 by the Rumford Company. Many of the recipes are standard, presented so they can be made with the company’s brand of baking powder. Like many older cookbooks, however, there are some unfamiliar offerings: Marmalade Pudding, Cornstarch […]

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