c1919-1921 The Modern Grocer and Provision Dealer

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A comprehensive 4 volume set on grocery and food retailing.

In publisher's original decorative red cloth binding. In unclipped dust wrappers.

Each volume includes an abundance of plates:

Volume one contains a frontispiece and 13 further plates, one of which being a folding diagram. Collated, complete.

Volume two contains a frontispiece and 12 further plates, bound out of sequence, and lacking pages 162, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, 175. 

Volume three contains a frontispiece and 12 further plates. Collated, complete.

Volume four contains 10 plates throughout. Collated, complete. 

These volumes provide a substantial guide to retail and merchandising practices, the writing having been assisted by specialist writers that are experts in their own departments. They cover the industry's history, the distributions of groceries and provisions, the divisions of the trade, acquiring a business and shop fronts, fittings and sundry equipment.