Lot 327 , Tovey, Charles - Wine and Wine Countries....new edition. pictorial engraved and printed titles, mounted photo. portrait frontis., folded facsimile, 4 maps and 15 plates; publisher's gilt lettered pictorial cloth, sm. cr.

° Tovey, Charles - Wine and Wine Countries....new edition. pictorial engraved and printed titles, mounted photo. portrait frontis., folded facsimile, 4 maps and 15 plates; publisher's gilt lettered pictorial cloth, sm. cr. 8vo. Whittaker and Co., 1877; Redding, Cyrus - A History and Description of Modern Wines. 3rd edition, with additions and corrections. pictorial vignette title, engraved frontis. and text illus.; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spine with red label, marbled edges and e/ps., cr.8vo. Henry G. Bohn, 1851; Thudichum, J.L.W. - A Treatise on Wines....engraved text illus., publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, gilt top, cr.8vo. 1894; together with 6 (later) related books
£120-160

Condition:
Tovey - some wear head/tail of spine, inner hinges cracked, back completely loose in case, front free e/p. and frontis. loose as are I map and I plt., marked soiling pp. 420-28 (and on the facsimile), text with intermittent spotting. viii, 519pp. and 7pp. publisher's advert.; author's contemp. presentation inscription verso of front free e/p.; Redding - split head of upper spine joint and with sl. spine wear, inner hinges tender, frontis. margins stained (just touching image) o/w. good inside, save some creasing last 3pp. viii, 440pp.; Thudichun - some spine wear, inner hinges weak, clean inside, hf. title embossed stamp - 'From The Publisher'. xx, 381pp. (incl. hf. title); Others incl. Morton Shand's A Book of French Wines (rev. ed., 1960) and Johnson's Wine (rev. ed., 1974)

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