VINETUM BRITANNICUM, or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits growing in this Kingdom. With the method of propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees.To which is added, APIARIUM or a Discourse of BEES. de WORLIDGE, John. ISABEL SOMERSET'S COPY.: - 1678

For the most expeditious making of CIDER. And also the right way of making METHEGLIN and BIRCH-WINE. The APIARIUM was not included in the FIRST EDITION. SECOND EDITION MUCH ENLARGED 1678. 8vo, approximately 175 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece to Vinetum, (misbound after title page), plus three engraved plates, headpiece and decorated initial to first page, engraved frontispiece and title page to Apiarium, pages: [24], 1-240; [10], 1-42, [12], the last page is the Errata with a catchword (TO) which is a printer's error, this copy collates the same as ESTC R34758. Bound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label to spine, blind rules to covers, endpapers replaced at time of binding, ISABEL SOMERSET'S bookplate on first pastedown. Spine slightly rubbed and darkened, fore-edge on 3 pages of preface have pale browning, nowhere near text, ink library stamp of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Herts, on blank first free endpaper, tip of 1 lower corner neatly repaired, 3 tiny old ink letters to title page, not affecting text, first inner paper hinge cracked, binding tight and firm, occasional spot, otherwise a very good copy. Lady Isabella married Lord Henry Somerset and became known as Lady Henry Somerset, known as Lady Isabel Somerset after the breakup of her marriage. She was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights (Wikipedia). See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, page 315; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 137; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, pages 210-211; Andre L. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, page 153, and Bibliotheca Vinaria by Simon, page 86; William R. Cagle, A Matter of Taste, page 771, No. 1070; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 504; British Bee Books a Bibliography 1500-1976, page 61, No. 54; H.J.O.Walker Descriptive Catalogue of A Library OF BEE-BOOKS, page 80. John Evelyn had a copy of this title in his library, See Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn, A Study in Bibliophily, page 298, No 39. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.