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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Various (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of nine volumes on the different wine regions of France and French dining, with illustrations throughout. Nine volumes. A collection of detailed and comprehensive studies of the great wine regions of France, exploring the methods of production and the best known wines from each area. With additional volumes on the dining experience across France, with important tips for the visitor or traveler. Each region presented in this collection remains a key source of fine wines, and these volumes explore the quality of the wine from some of the best and the least well-known regions of France. With discussions on classification and emphasis on the wine makers themselves. This set contains: Wines & Chateaux of the Loire, 1967. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates, collated complete. Written by T. A. Layton, a celebrated British caterer, restaurateur, and cheese and wine connoisseur. Wines and People of Alsace, 1970. First edition. With a map of the region. Written by T. A. Layton. Eating & Drinking in France Today, 1972. First edition. Written by Pamela Joan Vandyke-Price, a British Wine taster and writer credited as the first British woman to write about wine and spirits. Diary of a Winetaster: Recent Tastings of French and Californian Wines, 1972. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates, collated complete. Written by Harry Waugh, a British wine merchant, a famous wine critic and, a wine buyer to Queen Elizabeth II. The Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the Nineteenth Century, 1975. First UK edition. Illustrated with eight plates, collated complete. Written by Jean-Paul Aron, a French writer, philosopher and journalist. Translated by Nina Rootes, a translator of French and Italian literature. Burgundy Vines and Wines, 1976. First edition. Illustrated with six colour plates, eight black-and-white plates, and numerous in-text images, collated complete. Written by John Arlott, an English journalist, author and cricket commentator who was also a poet and wine connoisseur, and Christopher Fielden, a British editor. Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961, 1985. First edition, first printing. Written by Robert M. Parker Jr., an American wine critic who introduced wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate. Both of which became influential in American wine buying and in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. Wines from France: 1992-1993, 1992. First edition. In both French and English. Illustrated throughout. A guide to private producers. Sauternes and Other Sweet Wines of Bordeaux, 1995. First edition. With two maps. Written by Stephen Brook, a British writer on wine who has been a contributing editor to Decanter since 1996. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear or fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines and panel edges with the odd small closed tear. A 2" closed tear to the rear fly leaf of Bordeaux. Eating & Drinking in France Today and Wines from France are not issued with a dust wrapper, with Wines from France being bound in the original paper covered boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.