Andre L. Simon — English Wines and Cordials

London, Gramol Publications Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A delightful curation of recipes for wines and cordials, written by wine merchant and authoritative author on the subject, Andre L. Simon. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A charming collection of wine and cordial recipes by French-born wine merchant and prolific author on wine-based subjects, Andre L. Simon. Introduced with a history of the wines of Gascony and others, with recipes including allspice, blackberry wine, wormwood, mead, British port and sherry.  This book was published, according to the wrapper's blurb, "At a time when limiting quotas and crippling import duties have placed both foreign and Empire wines beyond the reach of all but a comparatively few wealthy or lucky people". In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart indeed, with mild shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is very smart, with sunning to the spine and tape reinforcements to the head and tail, which is worn slightly. With general edge wear to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to the endpapers and ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper, otherwise contents are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.