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HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. REPRINT. Progressive Catering A Comprehensive Treatment of Food, Cookery, Drink, Catering Services and Management ( 4 Volume Set); reprint dated July 1952; Navy blue boards - gilt to spine has faded. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Volume I 318 pages; Volume II 353 pages; Volume III 378 pages; Volume IV 406 pages; Four volume set. No dustjackets. DATE PUBLISHED: 1952 EDITION: REPRINT 378.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Decorated embossed navy blue boards. Dull spine title. Small tear of paper on front inner hinge. No jacket. Volume two only.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Blue bobbled cloth lettered in gold on spine. Minute name stamps on endpapers.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Blue bobbled cloth lettered in gold on spine. Minute name stamps on endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1952 1st edition. Volume IV of a 4 volume set. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spines, blind stamped Caxton 1474 logo to front, blue speckled edges. Profusely illustrated: b/w plates; b/w in-text illustrations. Index. Condition: Very Good. Light edgewear. Faint foxing to endpapers. Internally clean and bright. Binding firm. Size: 9.5x7.5in / 24x19cm. 406pp. Weight: 1kg.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. How to cater - no recipes but everything you will need to know about the ingredients, drinks, and the serving. This is a 4 volume set with a shipping weight of 4kg, please contact us before placing an order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. How to cater - no recipes but everything you will need to know about the ingredients, drinks, and the serving. This is a 4 volume set with a shipping weight of 4kg, please contact us before placing an order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd. (UK) Four volume set: each volume 24 x 18 cm, gold spine titles, pebbly blue cloth with embossed cnetral device, B&W photos. Vol I: ix,318pp. frontis, B&W photos.Covers gastronomy, nutrition, culinary terms and processes, the menu, sauces, soups, hors d'oeuvres, meat and its preparation. Vol II: viii, 353pp. B&W photos. Coves poultry and feathered game, sundries, sweets. carving, the pressure cooker, wines in the kitchen. Very slight water stain to the topo fthe front endpaper and pastedown ( not obstrusive). Vol III: vi, 378pp. Covers Alcoholic drinks, non-alcoholic drinks, tobacco, organization of the catering services. Vol IV: vi, 370pp,with unpaginated index section. faint moisture stain to top edge of pastedowns not affecting the recto of the front nor the verso of the back cover. Covers Administration, Specialized catering, Transport catering, the catering business, Hygiene. This is a very complete treatment of professional food and catering services dating from the early 1950 (The first edition appeared in 1952). This work won the Silver Medal for literary works on Gastronomy at 'Hospes' the International Cookery and Tourist Exhibition, in Berne, 1954. There are some recipes in the food sections with ingredients given in British measures. Second Edition No markings, clean tight copies with almost no rubbing to cover edges, small faint waterstain to volumes notes, overall solid VG+; no Dj. (12.5 JM HOZ 403/0 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.