Sainstbury, George (1845-1933) — Notes on a Cellar-Book

London Macmillan and Co., Limited pp. xxxi, 227, [1]. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 7". Publisher's maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, untrimmed pages. Remarkably well-preserved cloth extremities showing no detectable flaws, charming period ink inscription to the ffep, text-block without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; about fine and housed in near fine original, price-clipped, dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good+ to near fine. A charming volume of this classic title on the subject of wine. Professor Saintsbury was not only a great man of letters but an authority on the art of good living. The reissue of his famous little book on wine (by no means excluding other liquids) will undoubtedly be welcomed by a new generation of readers as it was thirty years ago when the first edition was published. Notes on a Cellar-Book is not merely a book concerning wine: it is a book in which wine itself moves and lives like a good deamon.