Author: MENDELSOHN, OSCAR A.
Title: Drinking with Pepys
Description: London, Macmillan. 1963, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 125 pages. Square solid copy with minor wear on covers.Dust jacket has color fading on spine, small edge tears on top and bottom with a small chunk missing on top front edge, and jacket shows light wear. "The author has blended his gifts as a wine-lover, chemist and writer with his affection for the 17th century diarist to produce a book of rare erudition and dry wit, in which he has collated all Pepy's allusions to alcohol, to Possets and Syllabubs, Cellarage and Cooperage. He ranges far from the taverns, tap-houses and cellars of Restoration London to the vineyards of Europe, and back into antiquity, pausing to sketch a vignette and with due sobriety to discuss the chemistry of fermentation and distillation.". Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Alcohol Drink Wine Taverns History England United Kingdom Britain History


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