Practical Grocer Manual Guide (54 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Each volume 272 pages, with colour and black & white plates. Some mild foxing here and there. In the attractive Gresham bindings of the period, and both volumes are very sound and bright. Size: 17 x 27 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; New Arrivals. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gresham January 1905 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. corners worn, lower fore corner text volume 2 bumped, moderately shaken, otherwise a clean, sound, reading set, volumes 1 and 2 only, small quartos, 272 pages, 272 pages, green cloth with gilt titles and black, gilt and seafoam green decorations of seated woman with ledger and worker hefting baled goods.…

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1904 Hardback. 25x18cm. ix+272 pages. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece & other tissue-guarded colour plates, and black & white plates. Spine is intact. Spine & front board have bright gilt lettering. Clean & very tight book. SOME FOXING ESPECIALLY TO PRELIMS. Flat pages. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SM13. The Practical Grocer. Volume Two: Groceries and Spices. A Manual and Guide for the Grocer and Provision Merchant and Allied Trades by W. H. Simmonds. VOLUME TWO ONLY. The Gresham Publishing Company, London. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Cloth, Gilt Titles. Condition: Good VG. No Dustjacket. First Edition. First volume only of a manual and guide for for the Grocery Trade in Britain. 272pp, photo illustrated [some in color], tables etc. Generally bright and clean with a sound binding. Previous owner's signature to htp.Minor wear to green cloth at tips etc. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. Unpacked weight 1.1kg. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates based on specific destination and weight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. with contributions by specialists, trade experts and members of the Trades. Vol IV - Oils, Wines and Side-lines. Twelve plates with explanatory text printed on their tissue protectors. Green picture boards clean with turned spine. Black eps. Clean and firmly fixed within binding. Foxing in places throughout but tends to add to the books charm rather than detract1.23kg, 290pps, including a separately numbered 8pps on advertising. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. with contributions by specialists, trade experts and members of the Trades. Vol III - Provisions & C. Twelve plates with explanatory text printed on their tissue protectors. Green picture boards have some 'coffee' stains to front, small marks and turned spine. Black eps. Clean and firmly fixed within binding. Foxing in places throughout but tends to add to the books charm rather than detract. 1.15kg, 272pps +8 of publisher adverts.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. First Edition. A complete set of 'The Practical Grocer' published in 1904 by Gresham complete with lovely fine paper guarded colour plates in very good minus condition. Original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spines and each front board with a vignette of a lady musing over a ledger. No inscriptions. All plates as called for. The text blocks and the pages remain very clean with just some light scattered or very scattered foxing. Notable mottling to the cloth - volume 1 - to the cloth of the rear board and only slightly so to the lower corner of the front board; Volume 2 - slight mottling to the cloth of the rear board, Volume 3 - notable staining and mottling to the cloth of the rear board; Volume 4 - light mottling to the cloth of the rear board and a notable stain to the corner of the same board measuring approximately 9cm x 7cm. A little dust soiling to the upper fore-edges. A very good minus complete set.…

Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remain particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: v. 1. The trade of to-day -- v. 2. Groceries and spices -- v. 3. Provisions, &c. -- v. 4. Oils, wines and side-lines. Subjects: Groceries. Grocery trade Great Britain. Food industry and trade. 1 Kg.…

Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remain particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: v. 1. The trade of to-day -- v. 2. Groceries and spices -- v. 3. Provisions, &c. -- v. 4. Oils, wines and side-lines. Subjects: Groceries. Grocery trade Great Britain. Food industry and trade. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. edition, illustrated, no place or date but c.1910. Hardback, 8vo. cloth, Frontispiece portrait, 1184pp. including the General Information section and advertisements, spine sunned and repaired, some browning to page edges, one blank removed else contents clean and tight. Described as the classic vade mecum to the grocery trade containing a vast amount of information on ingredients and made products sold in the grocery trade from Abasas (A second class quality of Portuguese wine) to Zulu Imphec (African Sugar Cane). Fascinating reading with much information still relevant today.…

FIRST EDITION 4 Volumes Large 8vo. dark green clothbound hardbacks, gilt, with embossed decorations to spines and upper boards. 272, 272, 272 and 290pp. All volumes illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Each volumes has a previous owner's name in ink to early blank and Vol. III has same owner's name and address in pencil to ffep. Vol. IV's Index has a few pencil marks in margins. Foxing to prelims and foredges of all volumes. Light wear and rubbing to all covers with a few light spots to upper board of Vol. III. Overall a Good+ Set. (Shelf 46) PLEASE NOTE: VERY Heavy SET (4kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Four Volume Set. Super-Royal Octavo's (as stated on publisher's 'conditions' slip). 272, 8pp. ix, 272, 8pp. ix, 272, 8pp. ix, 290, 8pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with attractive art nouveau decoration and gilt titles. Minor rubbing to extremities. Surface wear and markings to boards, particularly rear of vol. I. Occasional mild internal spotting, otherwise contents generally clean and bright. Illustrated. Overall a Very Good set. Heavy - additional postage will be advised.…

Four volumes with numerous colour plates with topics such as Banch shops, Assistants duties, soliciting orders etc.Green cloth with gilt on spine and front cover. some wear on the top and bottom of the spine along with some bumping of the boards, some foxing on the end pages otherwise the text block is clear and bright.…

Hard Cover. (London: Gilvert & Rivington Ltd nd [1902]. Second Edition Illustrated. No dustwrapper FROM THE LIBRARY OF ELIZABETH DAVID WITH 4 PAGES OF HER HAND-WRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTES LAID IN. With Elizabeth David's oval book-plate on the Preface page. Bound in oatmeal cloth with red label lettered in gilt to the spine. 1171 pp + 4 pages of adverts at the end of the book. Elizabeth David points out in her notes that the binders have misbound 4 pages of adverts (pages 1177-1184) at the front of the book rather than the rear. Furthermore she points out that pages 310-313 are missing from this copy. The majority of her other manuscript comments are in her customary green ink and relate to individual references in the book including: Baysalt (page 81), Patent breads (page 140), Compressed vegetables (page 289), Crystallised and Glace Fruits - use of spent syrup (page 309), Danish bacon (page 318), French butter - a perfect, eye-witness description of the making of farm butter in Normandy (page 387), Frozen Milk (page 396), Furmenting (page 400), Pottle (page 437), Myrabolanes (page 621), Prunelloes (page 761), Saltpetre (page 820), Sugar Candy (page 902), Sugar Plums (page 904), Tomato Paste - a new condiment (page 955), Turkish Delight (page 976), Tutti-Frutti Ice cream (page 981), Worcestershire Sauce (page 1031), Yeast (page 1033), Italian warehousemen (page 1045). Pages very brittle and browned and starting to flake. A VG copy. Further photographs available upon request.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 337. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1906 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1 Language: English Pages: 337 Volume 1.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 346. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1906 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 3 Language: English Pages: 346 Volume 3.…