Food and Drugs: A Manual for Traders and Others

180pp, 31pp publisher’s catalogue, [3]pp contemporary advertisements.  In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on front panel.  12mo.  Cloth worn marked, soiled around edges and rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends.  Boards detached from text block. Some darkening to text block edges.  Some toning in page margins else internally neat and clean barring a previous owner’s name neatly inked at the top of the title page.  A comprehensive assessment of the rules and regulations governing the sale of food and drugs at the turn of the century, bringing to together the piecemeal legislation of the late 19th century.