Author: Anonymous
Title: The Wine and Spirit Merchant. A Familiar Treatise for Practical Men, on the Management of Wines and Spirits in All Their Varieties, with an Appendix, Showing the Simplest Way of Gauging and Fixing Casks and Other Vessels without the Aid of Special Instruments.
Description: London, W. R. Loftus , 1885. Cloth. A new revised edition of this very interesting and scarce volume on wine and its trade. Undated. Dated from the new and revised edition copy institutionally held at the British Library on Library Hub. A scarce work discussing wine with general facts, culture of the vine as a branch of the industry, historical notes on consumption, and going into detailed descriptions of wines from different countries and regions as well as much more information, and additional notes on Claret, Burgundy, Sherry, Port, Champagne, and other sparkling wines. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to front board. Externally very smart with minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities and slight rubbing to cloth to front and rear joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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