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Paperback / softback. New.

London, printed for Thomas Dring, over against the Inner-Temple-gate; and Thomas Burrel, at the Golden-ball under St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1678.. TITLE CONTINUED: And also the right way of making METHEGLIN and BIRCH-WINE. SECOND EDITION MUCH ENLARGED 1678. LACKS THE SECOND PART ON BEES. 8vo, approximately 175 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece, plus 3 full page illustrations,1 being an engraved plate, headpiece and decorated initial to first page, pages: [24], 1-238, lacks final advert leaf and Contents which followed the part on bees . Bound in full modern speckled calf, 2 gilt lettered green morocco labels to spine, gilt date at foot, blind rules to edges of covers, new endpapers. Pale staining to frontispiece, old ink notes and bookplate to the blank side of frontispiece, narrow repair with old paper to inner margin of title page on verso, 6 small marginal repairs not affecting text, pale ink stain to top of 1 margin, pale age-browning throughout, mostly affecting margins,… Read More

London: J.C. for Tho. Dring and Tho. Burrel, 1676. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. (24), 186, 6, including the license leaf (often lacking) and index. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates and a small marginal woodcut. Title-page lightly browned, some light toning to the text. Bound in old speckled calf, rebacked in antique style, red morocco spine label. A very nice copy. Wing W3608; Janson, Pomona's Harvest, p. 137; Bitting p. 504; Gabler 43130; Henrey Vol. 1, p. 206; Simon Gastronomica 1632 & Vinaria p. 86. The first edition of a key British wine book. Worlidge is "generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth - century writers in gardening and husbandry ..." (Henry): little is known of him except that he lived in Petersfield, Hampshire. His SYSTEMA AGRICULTURAE, which gathered into focus the scattered information published during the Commonwealth, was the first systematic treatise on husbandry on a large and comprehensive scale. and was undoubtedly… Read More