Cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 304pp, index, b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice clean pages throughout. In good dustcover with light edge wear, now protected.

Contents:

'Tells of the first golden age of wine in the classical Greek and Roman periods; of the fifteen centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire when great vintage wines vanished from the world; and of the dawn of the second golden age of wine, which though crippled for a time by phylloxera has survived its havoc.'