Title: A BOOK OF FRENCH WINES
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, London
Publication Date: 1928
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st
xiii, 247 printed pages, title page in red and black. Some extremely light and marginal foxing. 15 x 23 cm. Quarter cream cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Boards with salmon paper covers. Corners slightly bumped. Pictorial colour dustwrapper designed by Edward Carrick. Corners, edges, hinges and spine slightly worn and with minor losses. Spine age toned. Philip Morton Shand, known as P. Morton Shand, was an English journalist, architecture critic, wine and food writer, entrepreneur and pomologist. He is also the paternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Edward Carrick (born Edward Anthony Craig, 1905-98) was an English art designer for film, an author and illustrator. Bookseller Inventory # 4342