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Notes on a Cellar-Book - Signed -
George Saintsbury
1921 - Macmillan & Co., London - Édition de Luxe. One of Five Hundred Signed Copies
Édition de Luxe, signed by Saintsbury and limited to 500 copies.
Since its first publication, the classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and drinking in the literature of wine. A collection of tasting notes, menus, and robust opinions, the work is filled with anecdotes and recollections of wines and spirits consumed from the heights of Romanée-Conti to the simple pleasures of beer, flip, and mum.
‘Wine pleased my senses, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people’ – George Saintsbury.
‘Few wine books posses the iconic status of George Saintsbury's Notes on a Cellar-Book.’ – Wine Spectator.
‘As much a model for wine writing as . . . an historical document revealing how wines were once regarded and how times have changed’ – Bloomberg.
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Price HK$ 5,000
1921 - Macmillan & Co., London - Édition de Luxe. One of Five Hundred Signed Copies
Édition de Luxe, signed by Saintsbury and limited to 500 copies.Since its first publication, the classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and drinking in the literature of wine. A collection of tasting notes, menus, and robust opinions, the work is filled with anecdotes and recollections of wines and spirits consumed from the heights of Romanée-Conti to the simple pleasures of beer, flip, and mum.
‘Wine pleased my senses, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people’ – George Saintsbury.
‘Few wine books posses the iconic status of George Saintsbury's Notes on a Cellar-Book.’ – Wine Spectator.
‘As much a model for wine writing as . . . an historical document revealing how wines were once regarded and how times have changed’ – Bloomberg.
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Price HK$ 5,000