A History and Description of Modern Wines.

An early history of winemaking and the principle growing regions of Europe, Persia and the East, Africa and America, with notes also on vintages, keeping wines, and their 'adulteration and sophistication'.

'Redding was a man of letters and a journalist; he had read and travelled much, and he wrote in a simple and pleasant style far better suited to the general reading public than the more ponderous works of Barry or Henderson. Redding's History of Modern Wines was inspired by Henderson's work, but it is an improvement upon the original, and no other book written in English on the subject of wines has ever been more popular not so copiously copied from by later writers than Redding's History' (Simon).

Simon gets the date wrong on this the third edition, which was published in 1851 not 1871 as recorded in the Bibliotheca Vinaria.

Third edition, with additions and corrections; 8vo (19 x 12.5 cm); engraved frontispiece and vignettes, note in red pen to title, advertisement endpapers; publisher's blind-tooled green cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, spine and extremities toned, corners bumped, extremities rubbed; viii, 440pp.

Simon p.7.