WINE. – [William ELLIS.] The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors, as practiced both in Town and Country… in Three Parts. To Which is added A Supplement. London: Thomas Astley, 1742. Fourth edition, 8vo (198 x 120mm.) 3 parts and ‘A Supplement’, separate titles to each part, continuous register and pagination, 4pp. ‘Index’ and 16pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning, moderate spotting throughout, some leaves heavily, corner creases to several leaves.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original lettering piece retained, covers and extremities rubbed, scuffing). Note: parts 2-3 and the ‘Supplement’ are second editions and dated 1743. Provenance: Edward Braxton Reynolds (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further seven volumes relating to wine and brewing (including a first edition of William Robert Loftus’s ‘The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing’, 1856, 12mo, and a third edition of Thomas A. Knight’s ‘A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry’, 1809, 12mo, and Joseph J. White’s ‘Cranberry Culture’, 1870, 8vo) (8).