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Cider.- W[orlidge] (J[ohn]) The Most Easie Method for Making the Best Cyder, lacking final blank but with order to print f. for a different work bound in at end (Papin's A New Digester or Engine for Softening Bones, 1681), ownership inscription of Studley Castle dated 1886 to head of title, very small puncture-mark and tear within title and A2, causing loss to few letters to A2v, trimmed close at head, touching first line of title and shaving one or two headlines, some light soiling and browning, modern calf-backed boards, [Wing W3597], George Grafton, 1687.

⁂ Rare first separate edition, adapted from the author's Vinetum Britannicum: or a Treatise of Cider and other Wines and Drinks Extracted from Fruits Grown in this Kingdom (1676). "Cyder well made, hath been found to be a much more excellent and salubrous [sic] Liquor, and more suitable to our English Bodies, than any of those corrupt and adulterated Wines that are daily consumed" (p. 1).

Description

Cider.- W[orlidge] (J[ohn]) The Most Easie Method for Making the Best Cyder, lacking final blank but with order to print f. for a different work bound in at end (Papin's A New Digester or Engine for Softening Bones, 1681), ownership inscription of Studley Castle dated 1886 to head of title, very small puncture-mark and tear within title and A2, causing loss to few letters to A2v, trimmed close at head, touching first line of title and shaving one or two headlines, some light soiling and browning, modern calf-backed boards, [Wing W3597], George Grafton, 1687.

⁂ Rare first separate edition, adapted from the author's Vinetum Britannicum: or a Treatise of Cider and other Wines and Drinks Extracted from Fruits Grown in this Kingdom (1676). "Cyder well made, hath been found to be a much more excellent and salubrous [sic] Liquor, and more suitable to our English Bodies, than any of those corrupt and adulterated Wines that are daily consumed" (p. 1).

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