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xii, 236 pp. Engraved frontispiece depicts a wine cellar and two discriminating bon vivants. (12mo) 18.7x11.3 cm (7¼x4½"), original blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Fifth Edition.

Comprising among others:

• Directions for the selection and purchase of wines, cellaring and preservation of wine.
• Treatise on brewing porter, ales, &c. with description of malts and hops.
• Principles of fermentation and distillation of spirits. With recipes for punch, shrubs, &c.
• On the manufacture of cider, perry, mead, and vinegar.
• Laws regulating the British innkeeper and publican.

"The design of this work, is to present to that part of the public to whom it is a ddressed, a PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION OF WINES, foreign and domestic, malt liquors, cider, perry, vinegar, spirits, liqueurs, cordials, and compounds, with the present improved mode of manufacturing them, both on a large and limited scale; a numberous and valuable Collection of Recipes never before published..." - Preface.