The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

US only — the book was not published in Britain and there is no original-language question, so the 1896 Little, Brown Boston printing is the unambiguous true first. RETITLING / FIRST-THUS TRAPS: a revised edition appeared in 1906; the 8th edition (1946) was retitled Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book; the 11th edition (1965) became simply The Fannie Farmer Cookbook; Marion Cunningham revised the 12th and 13th editions (13th, 1990, reissued 1996 for the centenary, Knopf). Thirteen editions ran 1896-1990, the text growing from 567 to 874 pages — none of the retitlings is a first of this book.