The History of Champagne
Ebury Press, 1962.
First edition. 4to. Bound in burgundy morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt rules to covers, vignette of vines to upper cover, five raised bands with gilt lettering and rules to spine. Marbled endpapers. Pictorial endpapers, colour plates, maps and drawings in the text. A fine copy.
André Simon's history of champagne is a must for wine lovers.
Wine connoisseur, gourmet, bibliophile, historian and writer, Andre Simon has an unparalleled place in "the art of good living". This charismatic Frenchman arrived in London in 1902 as the English agent for the champagne house of Pommery and Greno. A year later he was commissioned to write for the Wine and Spirit Trade Review a series of articles on the history of the champagne trade in England. He was thus "bitten by the bug of printers ink" and went on to write over 100 publications on food and drink. His knowledge was encyclopedic and his literary style unmistakable, being "charming, stately and faintly whimsical" [Johnson].
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