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1939 The Sweet Shop: A Handbook for Retail Confectioners
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Description
First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the publisher's original cloth binding.
This copy is the first edition, third impression of this work.
This is a practical manual aimed at sweet shop owners and confectioners, with numerous detailed in-text illustrations, plates, two fold-out stock and cash book charts.
Covering both the technical aspects of confectionery machinery and production, and the business side of shopkeeping, including display techniques, hygiene standards, packaging strategies, and cost control, this copy offers a thorough insight into the 1930s British confectionery trade.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Boards slightly soiled with one or two slight handling marks. Spine discoloured. Offsetting and the odd slight spot to endpapers. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpaper. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned with one or two spots to fore edge.
Very Good
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