The Grocery Trade. Its hstory and romance

Notes:

Early account. Reprinted 1932 in one volume. Chapters include: Volume 1: 'In early England'; 'Spicers and pepperers'; 'The grocers of London'; 'The Grocers' Company'; 'Medieval groceries'; 'Progress of the Company'; 'Some puissant grocers'; 'Medieval period'; 'In the days of the Tudors'; 'Trade under the Tudors'; 'Trade government'; 'Trade oversight in London'; 'Pageantry'; 'Grocers and education'; 'The merchant trading companies'; 'The grocers and apothecaries'; 'The Grocers' Company and public duties'; 'The retailer and tokens'; 'Notable grocers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries'; Volume 2: 'Introduction of tea and coffee'; 'The story of tea'; 'The eighteenth century grocer'; 'Developments in the trade'; 'Some historic names'; 'Trade organisations in the provinces' ie guilds; 'The nineteenth century'; 'The Victorian era'; 'The early Victorian grocer'; 'The coming of free trade'; 'The co-operative movement and the grocer'; 'Modern trade developments'; 'Scientific developments'; 'Catching the public eye'; 'Worshipful Company of Grocers'; 'Latter years and latter men'