Mémoires du Vin
Zurich, Edition Caspar E Manz, 1968. Eylaud, J-M. Mémoires du Vin: ornés de cinquante-cinq dessins de Raymond Gautier-Constant. Edition Caspar E Manz: Zurich, 1968. Folio (240x230mm) loose folios 68,[4]pp. In French, Limited Ed #299/400 [SIGNED]
Second-hand hardcover
EYLAUD, J.-M. [Dr Jean-Max (1896-1979)]
Mémoires du Vin: ornés de cinquante-cinq dessins de Raymond Gautier-Constant.
Hotel et Caves St-Gothard, Zurich : Edition Caspar E. Manz, October, 1968. First edition, limited #299 of 400. Engravings by Raymond Gautier-Constant; preface by Raymond Oliver. Printed by J H Waser & Fils, Zurich.
Folio (240x230mm) 18 loose folios, cream heavy handmade paper, untrimmed edges [4],68,[4]pp in boards and matching slipcase, vellum gilt lettered spine; 55 original in-text monochrome lithographs. Signed to the colophon by the author, the artist and the editor. In French Slipcase and boards faintly bowed, faintly scuffed; faint small blemish to the title page, else fine.
Eylaud, a native of Bordeaux, was a doctor of medicine and sociology who devoted his life to the promotion of Bordeaux wine. Poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, speaker, journalist, vigneron, doctor, and intensely involved in fields as varied as sociology, medicine, oenology, local history, literature and theatre, Eylaud founded the Doctors Friends of Wine and the International Medical Committee for the Scientific Study of Grapes and Wine to defend wine in the light of medicine. A prolific writer, Eylaud published a large number of works, many on the wines of Bordeaux, during his lifetime. He was also a champion of Montesquieu and the founder and president of the Académie Montesquieu in Bordeaux.
Delightful and poetical musings, anecdotes, composing a biography of wine from Parnassus until the 1960s by a devoted lover of the wines of Bordeaux, elegantly illustrated.
An excellent copy.
§ OCLC records 8 holdings;
§ cf Oberlé Fritsch 589 for a paperback edition;
Item #10436
Price: $450.00 AUD