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“A Remarkable Work”: First Edition Of Vizetelly’s Copiously Illustrated History Of Champagne , 1882 VIZETELLY, Henry. A History of Champagne with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France. London, 1882. Quarto, recent green cloth with original cloth covers and spine panel neatly and expertly laid down. $2600. View on Website First editionof thishistoryof champagne, illustratedwith lithographic frontispiece, five engraved plates, folding color lithographic map of vineyards, and hundreds of in-text engravings. English journalist Vizetelly, “living in Paris when the Franco-Prussian war broke out, was captured and only narrowly escaped execution. Following the war he took up residence outside of Paris and ‘resumed my studies of the more famous wines of the world’” (Gabler, 291). His extensive knowledge of wine earned him a role of wine juror at the Vienna and Paris wine exhibitions in 1873 and 1878. AHistory of Champagne is “a remarkable work that traces the history of Champagne and its wine over 1800 years… This is Vizetelly’s best-known work. It is a revised and considerably expanded edition of Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines [1879]. The text is strikingly illustrated with 350 engravings, including numerous illustrations from ancient manuscripts and 200 original sketches made under the author’s supervision” (Gabler G40330). Interior clean, gilt very bright. A most desirable, nicely restored copy.

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