The Grocer’s Companion and Merchant’s Hand-Book : Containing a comprehensive account of the growth, manufacture and qualities of every article sold by grocers. Also tables of weights and measures, and information of a general nature of value to grocers and country merchants.Price $2.00.
Boston: New England Grocer Officer/Benjamin Johnson, 1883. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 240 pages. Illustrated, including a color frontispiece. FIRST EDITION THUS; with the Coffee Supplement (approximately 50 pages), introduced by Chase & Sanborn. “This work comprises, within itself, all the uses of a Cyclopeadia, a Manual and a Hand-book, all the necessary, well-ascertained and authenticated facts being condensed into the smallest space consistent with completeness and perspicuity.” Entries range.....