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Nestle Peter Cailler Kohler, [No date: circa 1947]. Wraps, [48] pp. (unpaginated); 18 x 12 cm; text in French; color paintings on both covers signed Dav. Burnand; two-color drawings in text, sepia photographs, color plate of chocolate bars and fold-out diagram of manufacture; with loose promotional insert.
In Good condition. Glued binding, tight. Illustrated covers show a few small nicks, creases and mild shelf wear; two dark stains on right side of front cover. Pages toned, otherwise unmarked. Insert toned. Promotional history of chocolate issued by the Swiss chocolate combine Nestle Peter Cailler Kohler, from the Spanish discovery of cacao through the founders of the four firms to manufacture at the Broc factory in the Gruyere. Sepia photographs show the factory, sorting of beans, roasters, the hall of conches, design of fancy boxes and packing of bonbons. Drawings reproduce cocoa sack marks from Trinidad, the Gold Coast, Venezuela, Sao Tome and the Netherlands East Indies. Covers (front, Alpine cattle below twin peaks; rear, woman with basket of cacao pods) are signed Dav. Burnand, the Swiss painter David Burnand (1888-1975), son of Eugene Burnand, who decorated the Nestle pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition. Loose insert, printed both sides, describes the N.P.C.K. stamps and albums and the Fip-Fop-Club, Nestle's children's club, with its Fip and Fop emblem: 115,000 members aged 5 to 15, film screenings and the periodical Nouvelles Fip-Fop. The club was founded in 1936; the insert's statement that it began "quelque dix ans" earlier gives the approximate date. Contents: Des chercheurs d'or trouvent des feves de cacao; Les Suisses fabriquent du chocolat; Comment fabrique-t-on le chocolat?; Specialites N.P.C.K.; Schema de la fabrication du chocolat et de la poudre de cacao.