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| [DAVIES (JOHN)] The British Guide: or, a Directory to Housekeepers & Innkeepers. Containing the Best Directions in making of Choice British Wines, with Receipts and Instructions for Flavouring, Colouring, Etc. of Foreign Wines and Spirits; Also, Directions for making Com Printed and Published by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool. 1808. First Edition, iv,204pp., lightly browned throughout, recent half calf, leather label to spine. Mostly a slightly altered version of J. Davies’ Innkeeper’s and butler’s guide. Rare, Copac listing the Cambridge University Library copy only. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 330.5 US$ 491.47 | JP 43719] Book number: 24848 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DAVIES (JOHN) The Innkeeper and Butler’s Guide, or, a directory in the making and managing of British wines; together with directions for the managing, colouring and flavouring of foreign wines and spirits, and for making British compounds, peppermint, anniseed, shru Printed by George Wilson, Leeds. 1807. Fifth Edition, [iv],200pp., slight dust-soiling to title, some light staining, new endpapers, recent quarter calf, leather label to spine, uncut. With chapters on English Wines (listing over 50 receipts), Foreign Wines, Cyder and Perry, Malt Liquor, Vinegar, Brandy, Rum, etc., Early edition are quite rare, Copac listing the Wellcome Library copy only for this edition. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 US$ 324.87 | JP 28899] Book number: 25000 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| SHORT (THOMAS) Discourses on Tea, Sugar, Milk, Made-Wines, Spirits, Punch, Tobacco, &c. With Plain and useful Rules for Gouty People. Printed for T. Longman and A. Millar. 1750. [ii],[vi],[iv],424pp., with advert leaf bound in after title but without the advert leaf sometimes found at the rear, title and advert leaf with a slight crease and some minor chipping, some browning to margin of final leaf, cont. calf, re-backed, red morocco label to spine. Thomas Short “was regarded as the foremost writer on beverages in the eighteenth century.”—Maclean, p.131. GBP 575.00 [Appr.: EURO 644.25 US$ 957.95 | JP 85214] Book number: 24995 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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