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Author: G. Vine.
Title: Home-Made Wines: How to Make and Keep Them with Observations on Gathering and Preparing the Fruit, Fining, Bottling, and Storing.
Publisher: London, Groombridge & Sons, 1870. First edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 6.5 "X 4.5 ".
Pages: iv-48 pages + catalogue.
Binding: Good decorated original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight, some light foxing or staining - as shown, name of a previous 1876 owner on the first endpaper - as shown).

The book: Scarce first edition of this early text on the art of making wine at home. With observations on gathering and preparing the fruit, fining, bottling and storing. Including chapters on Fermentation, Rhubarb wine or British Champagne, Apple Wine, Apricot Wine, Beer Wine, Bilberry Wine, Red Cherry Wine, White Currant Wine, Damson Wine, Ginger Wine, Grape Wine, Lemon Wine, Malt Wine, Orange Wine, Turnip Wine, To Restore Pricked Wine, Wine Tasting, ...