GROCER’S COMPANION, 1883, Grocery Trade, Merchant Gazetteer, Color Plate

The Grocer’s Companion and Merchant’s Hand-Book. Boston: New England Grocer Office, Benjamin Johnson, Publisher, 1883. Octavo. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt with blind-stamped borders. Illustrated with a color frontispiece depicting a branch of a coffee tree, protected by a tissue guard. Accompanied by a publisher’s notice slip tipped onto a front flyleaf.

Used, with light wear; slight rubbing to cloth extremities and minor marks to front board; light pencil notation to upper corner of front flyleaf; small tears at gutter of rear endpaper; pages lightly toned.