The History of Champagne by Andre L. Simon (Signed by the Author) (CP302)

Published 1962: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout / Signed by the Author

Original beige and tan embossed cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 192 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges and end papers. Boards slightly rubbed with time. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. A very scarce original signed first edition. (CP302)

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André Simon's history of champagne is a must for wine lovers.

Wine connoisseur, gourmet, bibliophile, historian and writer, Andre Simon has an unparalleled place in "the art of good living". This charismatic Frenchman arrived in London in 1902 as the English agent for the champagne house of Pommery and Greno. A year later he was commissioned to write for the Wine and Spirit Trade Review a series of articles on the history of the champagne trade in England. He was thus "bitten by the bug of printers ink" and went on to write over 100 publications on food and drink. His knowledge was encyclopedic and his literary style unmistakable, being "charming, stately and faintly whimsical" [Johnson].

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