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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.

Hardcovers. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket (as Issued?). Reprint. COMPLETE SET. FOUR HARDBACK BINDING WITHOUT DUSTJACKTS. HEAVY - will be expensive to send outside the UK. Volume One has 318 pages, Volume 2 has 353 pages, Volume 3 has 378 pages and volume 4 has 406 including the index for the four volumes. No dustjackerts. Very clean dark blue textured hardback bindings with light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Dulled gilt-coloured titles to spine. B&W photographic illustrations throuyghout. Tape marks to inside of boards, pencil name and address to flyleaf of first two volunmes o/w pages are very clean. (ALSO HAVE ANOTHER VOLUME TWO IS WHICH HAS WEAR TO HARDBACK BINDING EDGES AND CORNERS AND BUBBLING TO BACK BOARD WUITH REGLUED BACK ENDPAPER AND WITH LIGHTLY MARKED PAGES FOR £7.00).

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.

Second Edition. 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. Covers poultry and feathered game, sundries, sweets. carving, the pressure cooker, wines in the kitchen. Vol III: vi, 378pp. Covers Alcoholic drinks, non-alcoholic drinks, tobacco, organization of the catering services. Vol IV: vi, 370pp,with unpaginated index section. 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 imperial measurements.Second Edition No major markings, clean tight copies with almost no rubbing to cover edges, Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.