Drink
Burke, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Signed by Simon on the front endpaper. Black and white photographic illustrations of goblets. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper.
Wittily and with an erudition which is not less great for being unobtrusive [Simon] writes here of the delights, history and proper reverence for all drinks [Blurb]. Chapters include Dionysus in Hellas, Bacchus in Imperial Rome, Wine and the Elizabethans and Drinking Songs, amongst many others.
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