Peggy Hutchinson — Home-Made Sparkling Wine Secrets
London, W. Foulsham & Co, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the first edition of Peggy Hutchinson's guide to making sparkling wines at home. In the delightfully illustrated original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the vibrantly illustrated unclipped dust wrapper.Farmer's wife and household journalist Peggy Hutchinson presents a guide for making over 200 different fragrant sparkling wines from fruits and flowers, 'at a quarter of the cost of shop prices&apos.With the bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip a touch age toned, with small loss to back strip head, closed tear to front wrap tail, and significant closed tear to head of rear wrap. Tape repair to back strip head, and to dust wrapper reverse at back strip head and tail, flyleaf folds, and closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.