The first volume of Constable's Wine Library, Madeira covers the wine and food recipes of Madeira and Malmsey in 1933. With small losses to the dust jacket, the book is of a very good internal condition and retains the integrity of its recipes almost a century later, including the chapter, How to Give a Madeira Party. There are six further volumes to Constable's Wine Library, some of which written by the same authors.First edition; 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); introduction to Madeira and Malmsey Wine by Simon with facsimile signature, introduction to Madeira and Malmsey for Sauce and Party by Craig with facsimile signature, light spotting to edges with slight encroachment to extreme edges of a few leaves, not affecting text, small pen mark on rear endpaper, good internal condition; publisher's red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, losses to top edge and spine, affecting lettering to head, a few small pen marks to rear panel, otherwise, a handsome, period jacket; [vi], 153pp, [1]pp.
