Cocoa: All About It, by 'Historicus'

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1896. Small quarto (21 x 16.5 cm.), 99 pages. Illustrated with three chromolithograph plates and nineteen additional full-page plates. Printed throughout in royal blue ink on heavy, coated paper. Second Edition, revised; originally published in 1892. An odd history of cocoa and the roots of chocolate, by a son of the founder of Cadbury chocolates, Quaker John Cadbury. A bit shaken, due to the heavy, coated stock. Some light damp staining to rear panel of publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth; corners bumped. Spine panel a bit faded. Ownership inscription to preliminary blank. Still, a near very good copy of this handsome book. [Mueller, page 37; not in Bitting; Noling, (for the 1892 edition)].