The Grocery Trade: Its History and Romance (2 volumes)
London: Duckworth, 1910. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. Large 8vo. xvii, 288; ix, 428 pp. Index. Frontispiece plate "Grocers Hall, London", with tissue guard; illustrated plates in both volumes. Blue cloth with gilt decoration & lettering; top edges gilt. Some foxing to page edges else a near fine set. Item #21050
The grocer has, for nearly six centuries, played a not unimportant part in English history. Here the auhor traces the grocer from the time, when, in the fourteenth century, he first appeared in London annals, through all the subsequent changes up to pblication, when the number of grocers grew into the thousands with their wares arriving from all quarters of the globe.
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