DAVIES, John.
The Innkeeper and Butler's Guide: or, a directory for making & managing British wines; with directions for the managing, colouring, and flavouring of foreign wines and spirits and for making British compounds, peppermint, aniseed, shrub, &c.
London Printed for and sold by Robert Davies, Bookseller, 1824.
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An early edition of this curious guide for butlers and inkeepers with recipes for making English grape and fruit wines, cordials, punches, as well as tips on how to improve foreign wines.
For instance Maderia 'should be kept in a warmer place than port wine... if it be short [of body] you must feed it with brandy' (p.68). With an contemporary manuscript recipe for 'Cowslip Wine' laid down to the rear endpaper.
Sixteenth edition; 8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm); 1f. MS recipe laid-down to rear free endpaper recto, occasional slight spotting; publisher's typographic boards, rebacked in calf, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers, covers soiled; iv, 200, [additional leaf]pp.
For instance Maderia 'should be kept in a warmer place than port wine... if it be short [of body] you must feed it with brandy' (p.68). With an contemporary manuscript recipe for 'Cowslip Wine' laid down to the rear endpaper.
Sixteenth edition; 8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm); 1f. MS recipe laid-down to rear free endpaper recto, occasional slight spotting; publisher's typographic boards, rebacked in calf, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers, covers soiled; iv, 200, [additional leaf]pp.
Stock code 118228
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The Innkeeper and Butler's Guide:
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£150.00
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£150.00
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