VINETUM BRITANNICUM or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits growing in this Kingdom. With the method of propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees. For the most expeditious making of CIDER. by WORLIDGE, John.: - 1678

London, printed for Thomas Dring, over against the Inner-Temple-gate; and Thomas Burrel, at the Golden-ball under St. Dunstans 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, several small pale stains and spots, a good copy only, nicely bound, no loose pages, suitable as a working copy. John Worlidge (16401700) was a noted agriculturalist considered a great expert on rural affairs and one of the first British writers on that subject to discuss the importance of farming as an industry. Worlidge In Vinetum Britannicum advocated the production of cider over that of wine in Great Britain because it was better suited to the climate and resources. There are chapters on the cultivation of fruit and production of drinks from fruit, including wines, with the largest section devoted to cider, plus the medicinal properties of varions drinks. The last section is a Catalogue of Fruits containing the names of many which are no longer available. 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; ESTC R34758. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.