Chocolate and Cocoa: Cocoa, its growth and culture, manufacture, and modes of preparation for the table : accompanied by easy methods of analysis, whereby its purity may be ascertained
London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1864. First Edition thus. 12mo; [4], iii, 87, [1]pp including 9 illustrations. A Fair lending library copy with bookplate to front pastedown and ink stamps in text in 3/4 black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled and lettered. Complete, but with title page mostly detached (as is plate 6). The author was senior partner in Dunn & Hewett after the death of Daniel Dunn, who invented instant cocoa powder. Dunn & Hewett continued to be one of the leading cocoa manufacturers as late as 1911. A rare work, OCLC locates but one copy in institutional collections (incorrectly suggesting that copy is 102pp, but failing to note it is bound together with a second work). Item #21027
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