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Practical Notes on Wine.
The first edition in book-form of this detailed account of the wines of Europe, with notes on the principal houses, the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and trademarks.
'Beckwith was a wine-merchant and Associate Juror and Reporter on Wines at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. This book is a reprint of the "Report on Wines and other Fermented Liquors," prepared by command of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. It deals in a very concise manner with: 1st, the wines of every country from which England has been in the habit of receiving supplies; 2nd, the wines sent to the Paris Exhibition; 3rd, trade marks and the wine trade legislation' (Simon).
Scarce. We can only trace 4 copies in institutional collections worldwide (BL, Bodleian, Trinity College, Dublin, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow).
First edition in book-form; 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm); 1p. ad. to rear, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, slight dampstaining to front endpapers and bottom margin of first few ff, hinges split but holding; published brown cloth, gilt design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, puncture with slight loss, edges slightly rubbed; viii, 106, [2]pp.
Simon p.12.
'Beckwith was a wine-merchant and Associate Juror and Reporter on Wines at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. This book is a reprint of the "Report on Wines and other Fermented Liquors," prepared by command of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. It deals in a very concise manner with: 1st, the wines of every country from which England has been in the habit of receiving supplies; 2nd, the wines sent to the Paris Exhibition; 3rd, trade marks and the wine trade legislation' (Simon).
Scarce. We can only trace 4 copies in institutional collections worldwide (BL, Bodleian, Trinity College, Dublin, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow).
First edition in book-form; 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm); 1p. ad. to rear, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, slight dampstaining to front endpapers and bottom margin of first few ff, hinges split but holding; published brown cloth, gilt design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, puncture with slight loss, edges slightly rubbed; viii, 106, [2]pp.
Simon p.12.
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The first edition in book-form of this detailed account of the wines of Europe, with notes on the principal houses, the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and trademarks.
'Beckwith was a wine-merchant and Associate Juror and Reporter on Wines at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. This book is a reprint of the "Report on Wines and other Fermented Liquors," prepared by command of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. It deals in a very concise manner with: 1st, the wines of every country from which England has been in the habit of receiving supplies; 2nd, the wines sent to the Paris Exhibition; 3rd, trade marks and the wine trade legislation' (Simon).
Scarce. We can only trace 4 copies in institutional collections worldwide (BL, Bodleian, Trinity College, Dublin, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow).
First edition in book-form; 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm); 1p. ad. to rear, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, slight dampstaining to front endpapers and bottom margin of first few ff, hinges split but holding; published brown cloth, gilt design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, puncture with slight loss, edges slightly rubbed; viii, 106, [2]pp.
Simon p.12.
'Beckwith was a wine-merchant and Associate Juror and Reporter on Wines at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. This book is a reprint of the "Report on Wines and other Fermented Liquors," prepared by command of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. It deals in a very concise manner with: 1st, the wines of every country from which England has been in the habit of receiving supplies; 2nd, the wines sent to the Paris Exhibition; 3rd, trade marks and the wine trade legislation' (Simon).
Scarce. We can only trace 4 copies in institutional collections worldwide (BL, Bodleian, Trinity College, Dublin, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow).
First edition in book-form; 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm); 1p. ad. to rear, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, slight dampstaining to front endpapers and bottom margin of first few ff, hinges split but holding; published brown cloth, gilt design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, puncture with slight loss, edges slightly rubbed; viii, 106, [2]pp.
Simon p.12.
