| British Library: | W11/2581 DSC |
| British Library: | W11/2581 DSC |
No copy of hardback edition yet traced; the description sketched below is extrapolated from the patterns of other volumes.
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A CONCISE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GASTRONOMY [swelled rule] SECTION VIII WINE BEER CIDER SPIRITS Liqueurs, Cocktails, Cups, Mixed Drinks, and Mineral Waters COMPILED BY ANDRE L. SIMON PUBLISHED BY THE WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY 30 GROSVENOR GARDENS LONDON, S.W.1 1946
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[A]4 B-L8 M10.
[i-v] vi [vii-viii, 1] 2-178 [+2].
Medium 8o: trimmed, not measured, white wove, Basingwerk Parchment; 8 didot Walbaum (9pt. setting); 10 didot Walbaum (11pt. setting); cloth casing, probably buff, blocked like Wb with substitution of the number and name for this section: ‘VIII [then up panel] WINE ...’
This is the eighth of 9 sections which together form this encyclopedia; it seems probable that each section was published in 2 versions, one hardback and the other paperback; also most sections were reprinted several times. Those copies examined either at Curwen or the B.L. are described here, but for some sections it has not been possible to trace and describe both versions. As a result evidence for the Date or the Wrapper colour of some sections may be lacking.
The complete set comprises I Vb Sauces, II Wb Fish, III Xd Vegetables, IV ZAb Cereals, V Yg Fruit, VI ZBs Birds, VII ZCr Meat, VIII ZDq Wine, IX ZDr Cheese + Analytical Index.
Where comparison of both editions has been possible the only changes found have been: the Society's address on the t.p.; the type of paper used; slight variation in page-size; one slight change in pagination; and of course the change in the note of the Impression on the verso of t.p.
Of this section other impressions were made in 1946, 1948 and 1949.
Robin Phillips, 1963
| Curwen Press: | G54 |
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A CONCISE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GASTRONOMY [swelled rule] SECTION VIII WINE BEER CIDER SPIRITS Liqueurs, Cocktails, Cups, Mixed Drinks, and Mineral Waters COMPILED BY ANDRE L. SIMON PUBLISHED BY THE WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY 30 GROSVENOR GARDENS LONDON, S.W.1 1946
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First Published 1946 ... Fourth Printing 1949
As ZDq.
Medium 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, Basingwerk Parchment; 8 didot Walbaum (9pt. setting), 10 didot Walbaum (11pt. setting); paper wrappers, printed like Wba with buff background colour and substitution of this section's number and name: ‘SECTION VIII WINE ...’
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
B.L. copy at W11/2581 is not the legal deposit copy; it bears date 1946 on t.p., no watermark, otherwise similar to Curwen G54 ZDqa described.
