Being A Complete Manual of Viticulture and Oenology.
A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine Being A Complete Manual of Viticulture and Oenology.
Macmillan, 1872.
First edition. Original publisher's green decorative cloth, titled in gilt to the spine with black and gilt decorative vine illustration to upper cover. Top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece and one colour plate showing a Viticultural Map of the Gironde, plus 85 engravings in the text. A near fine copy with a trace of wear to the spine ends and front joint, but a bright, fresh copy.
Thudichum was a medical practitioner and Dupré a Professor of Chemistry; their work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the Wine Trade, chiefly as a résumé of all that had been written in England, during the sixties, in favour of 'Natural Wines,' and also of what had been published in France and Germany about viticulture and the art of wine-making... the most comprehensive modern treatise on the vine and its fruit in the English language Andre Simon (Bibliotheca Vinaria)
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