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Y-Worth, William
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Description
- Introitus Apertus ad Artem Distillationis; or the Whole Art of Distillation. practically stated, and Adorned with all the New Modes of Working now in Use. In which is contained, The Way of making Spirits, Aquavitae, Artificial Brandy, and their application to Simple and Compound Waters in the exact Pondus of the Greater and Lesser Composition... London: Joh. Taylor, 1692
- Paper, Ink, Leather
8vo (6 1/2 x 4 in.; 167 x 100 mm). 5 plates (frontispiece, captioned "The Art of Distillation here behold" has been bound facing chapter 1); edges browned, first blank partially detached, some foxing. Contemporary brown calf; corners, spine and joints rubbed, top and bottom of spine damaged, scratches, wormhole.
Provenance
Marcus Crahan (bookplate)
Literature
Wing Y218; Wellcome 2354080; Ian Burton, The Science and Commerce of Whisky, 2012, p. 37
Catalogue Note
First edition.
Possibly the first work in English to deal with distillation as its principal topci. The author was plainly unimpressed by Frecnh's work, considering his instruction "defective, both in the exact Modus of working, the ordering of the wash and backs for a quick fermentation (...) as also in the great business of rectification".
Possibly the first work in English to deal with distillation as its principal topci. The author was plainly unimpressed by Frecnh's work, considering his instruction "defective, both in the exact Modus of working, the ordering of the wash and backs for a quick fermentation (...) as also in the great business of rectification".