VINETUM BRITANNICUM: or, A TREATISE OF CIDER, and such other Wines and Drinks that are extracted from all manner of Fruits Growing in this Kingdom. Together with the Method of Propagating all sorts of Vinous FRUIT-TREES. by WORLIDGE, John.: - 1676

London, printed by J.C. for Tho. Dring, over against the Inner-temple; and Tho. Burrel at the Golden-ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1676.. Title continued: And a Description of the new-invented INGENIO or MILL, for the more expeditious and better making of CIDER. And also the right Method of making Metheglin and Birch-Wine. FIRST EDITION 1676. Small 8vo, approximately 170 x 110 mm, 6¾ x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates and a tiny woodcut of a Siphon pipe in a margin, pages: [24], 1-186, [6] - License leaf present, bound in full modern panelled calf, gilt lettered title label and gilt decoration between raised bands, blind decoration to covers, new endpapers. Spine faded, trimmed copy, no loss of text, repairs to inner and outer margins of frontispiece, no loss to image apart from a tiny chip to outer margin (see image), small light stain to title page, pale browning to margins throughout, 2 small rust spots, no loss of text, occasional small brown spot, old ink numbers to blank side of License leaf, Fox Point Collection bookplate to first pastedown, a very good copy in an attractive binding. See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, page 315; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 137; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, pages 210-211; Andre L. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, page 153 and Bibliotheca Vinaria by Simon, page 86, William R. Cagle, A Matter of Taste, page 771, No. 1070; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 504. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.