London: Printed by W. Sears, 11, Budge Row, Walbrook, 1830. Booklet, sewn in wrappers. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A response to the impending Beer Act of 1830, from a "Country Brewer". The commercial policy called the Beer Act would open brewing and cider making up to all householders who paid a modest fee, and the existing brewers, all licensed by local magistrates, were.....

[London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty], 11th August, 1803. Quarto, two bi-folds, bound with cord (31.4 x 19 cm.), [1477]-1483 pages (8 pages total). Original printing of this Royal English Act for "more effectually securing certain Duties on Malt, and for preventing Frauds by Makers of Malt from Beer or Bigg in Scotland." Very light creases from folds; some light soil.....

[Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified], 1816. Pamphleteer, vol. vii, no. xiii, ii. Pamphlet, disbound from larger octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), pages [107]-126. Author attribution from the BL catalogue. Following the appearance of these letters in the Times, there appear to have been three versions of this title: the present one, paginated as part of a larger compilation of pamphlets; another issue also in 1816, paginated 1-33;.....

New York: [C.F.J. Co.'s Print.], [circa 1858]. Bi-fold booklet (18.5 x 11 cm.), [4] pages plus belly band, printed in black and red. Illustrated. Date approximation from cover illustrations, "Patent Nov. 30th, 1858". An advertising booklet for the Porcelain Lined Cap for Mason's Jars, ostensibly to fight fraudulent imitations. Includes a belly band, printed in red and black, detailing the specifics of the Trade Mark labels found on boxes. A......

New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866; 1867. Thick octavo, 455, 15 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such, top-hat and all, in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a New York butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to.....

Boston: F.M. Porter Co., 1899. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (24 x 17.5 cm.), 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated, black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog, musical program, list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881, and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association.....

circa 1895. Oblong booklet (8.9 x 16.2 cm.), 8 pages. Illustrated with photographs and engravings. Promotes the Mudge Patent Canner, a household canning processor that “does away with the stewing kettle” and is “the cheapest, most efficacious and economical system of putting up high-standard goods that has ever been invented.” The Boston Cooking School Magazine reviewed the device saying, “a great point in its favor is that, by the use.....

Syracuse, NY: John Single Paper Company, 1900. Quarto (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), 81, [3] pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with steel engravings. FIRST EDITION, stated "Catalogue 'A'". A handsome trade catalogue of tools and machinery, small and large, for the butcher or sausage maker. From slaughterhouse machinery to butchers' coats, meat racks, shop counters, meat knives, butcher blocks, shavers, choppers, slicers, and more. Includes a small section of sausage recipes at.....

[Various places: circa 1880-1915]. Twenty-six trade cards, all illustrated with portraits of the proprietors, some with real photo illustrations. Various sizes (largest 16.5 x 15.5 cm.), some printed both sides. The businesses include restaurants, cafes, a grocer, an oyster house, a fruit house, lunch counter, confectionery & ice cream, fish and canned goods, a hotel (with fishing parties), a "Schlitz Forum & Cafe", a beer bottler, a nurseryman, wine &.....

Niagara Falls; Buffalo: The Natural Food Company; The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1908. Duodecimo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 62, [2] pages. Illustrated with four pages of chromolithograph images of shredded wheat dishes, and with black and white photos. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Series no. 1" (rear wrapper panel). A product cookbook from the company that brought us Shredded Wheat. Almost every recipe, from Blueberry Shortcake to Welsh Rarebit, contains Shredded Wheat. The final.....

Chicago: The Grocery Trade Publishing House, 1933. Small octavo, 19.3 x 12.7 cm, 64 pages. Later printing. Illustrations throughout. Three hundred twenty-one grocery related questions and answers in the following twenty-one categories: canned fish and shellfish, canned fruits, canned milk, canned soups, canned vegetables, canned goods—general, cereals and beans, cocoa and chocolate, coffee, cooking oils, dried fruits, flavoring extracts, flour, honey, macaroni and kindred products, nuts and nut products, olives.....

Philadelphia, Pa. The Company, 1915. Booklet (23 x 14.5 cm.), 60 pages. Illustrated. Index. Trade catalogue of a supplier of ice cream making equipment, from freezers and mixers, to scoops, waffle cone irons, molds, and milk-shake mixers. There are even "special wood soled shoes for ice cream makers". The wrapper indicates the firm was founded in 1864. Tiny bit of edgewear to printed brick colored wrappers, otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC.....

Indianapolis, Ind. J.B. Allfree Co.; Gilmore & Miller, Printers, 1889. Octavo, cord-bound in wrappers (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 70 pages. Illustrated with steel engravings throughout, and with three folding plates. All pages ruled in red. FIRST EDITION. A very attractive trade catalogue of the J.B. Alfree Company, manufacturers of milling machines, including the "Keystone" Four Roller Flour Mill, the "Success: Bolter and Dresser, the J.B. Alfree Sieve Scalper, the J.B.A......