Chats about Wine, C. E. Hawker, London: Grant Richards LTD., 3rd Print, 1910, HC, Very Good

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Hawker, C. E.. London: Grant Richards LTD., 1910
English, Very Good hardcover, duodecimo, 7 ½” x 5 ⅛”, 153 pp.

Very Good duodecimo, light blue cloth over boards, illustration of Sack Bottle, circa 1680 to front, black lettering to front and spine, bumping and rubbing to head, tail, and tips, soiling, crease to spine, foxing to text block, toning to endpapers.  Text in English. Contents include chapters entitled: What is Wine?; Wine Merchants--and Wine Merchants; Doctors and Wine; Wine at Hotels and Restaurants; Wines of France, Wines of Germany; Wines of Spain, Portugal, and Madeira; Wines of Italy, Austria, and Hungary; Wines of Australia and California; The Cellar and Treatment of Wines; Brandy.  An exquisite book that will “...try and awaken an interest in the subject among those who have not hitherto given much thought or attention to it".  Scarce in the trade.