The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland in Three Vols. -
Alfred Barnard
1889 - Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, London - First Editions
The first three volumes of this landmark work on British and Irish brewers, over 1,500 pages illustrated throughout, covering the history and production of all 68 major ‘noted’ brewing establishments together with the great maltings of Meakin Bros. in Burton-on-Trent and H. Baird in Glasgow.
With numerous illustrated beer and whisky related advertisements to the rear of each volume.
‘In 1889 Alfred Barnard published the first volume of a remarkable work, The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland. It took the form of a series of reports on visits to breweries. Barnard's primary focus was on the brewery as a production unit rather than as the vertically integrated retailers into which brewing companies were slowly evolve... he gives detailed accounts of the premises, plant and product range of a wide range of breweries close to the height of the late Victorian brewery boom. Noted Breweries is unique as a historical source for these aspects of the brewing industry.’
‘Overall he provides a unique insight into a wide cross section of the plant and the personalities behind one of the major industries of the Victorian world.’ - Paul Bayley, Brewery History Society. Reference: Paul Bayley, A personal consideration of Alfred Barnard's Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland and aspects of its relationship to the late Victorian brewing industry, Brewery History Society.
Originally planned as a three volume set, as stated in the title of volume one, Barnard went on to produce a later volume of covering smaller breweries in 1891, which is not include here.
Three quarto volumes (book size 25.5x19.8cm), pp. xvi 459 [1] [40 (advertisements)]; [4] 485 [1] [16 (advertisements)]; [4] 562 [12 (advertisements)] [2]. In publisher’s green cloth, spines and upper boards lettered and decorated in gilt, rear boards with gilt stamped vignette of a monk raising a tankard, white endpapers decorated with green print of thistles, all edges gilt. Condition: Near fine, offsetting to free endpapers, clean throughout but for some faint damp stains to outer edges of some pages, in near fine cloth, some minor wear to corners and spines, some weak inner hinges, volume I very good with rubbing to upper boards and side of spine affecting gilt. Ref: 112532 Price: HK$ 15,000
With numerous illustrated beer and whisky related advertisements to the rear of each volume.
‘In 1889 Alfred Barnard published the first volume of a remarkable work, The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland. It took the form of a series of reports on visits to breweries. Barnard's primary focus was on the brewery as a production unit rather than as the vertically integrated retailers into which brewing companies were slowly evolve... he gives detailed accounts of the premises, plant and product range of a wide range of breweries close to the height of the late Victorian brewery boom. Noted Breweries is unique as a historical source for these aspects of the brewing industry.’
‘Overall he provides a unique insight into a wide cross section of the plant and the personalities behind one of the major industries of the Victorian world.’ - Paul Bayley, Brewery History Society. Reference: Paul Bayley, A personal consideration of Alfred Barnard's Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland and aspects of its relationship to the late Victorian brewing industry, Brewery History Society.
Originally planned as a three volume set, as stated in the title of volume one, Barnard went on to produce a later volume of covering smaller breweries in 1891, which is not include here.
Three quarto volumes (book size 25.5x19.8cm), pp. xvi 459 [1] [40 (advertisements)]; [4] 485 [1] [16 (advertisements)]; [4] 562 [12 (advertisements)] [2]. In publisher’s green cloth, spines and upper boards lettered and decorated in gilt, rear boards with gilt stamped vignette of a monk raising a tankard, white endpapers decorated with green print of thistles, all edges gilt. Condition: Near fine, offsetting to free endpapers, clean throughout but for some faint damp stains to outer edges of some pages, in near fine cloth, some minor wear to corners and spines, some weak inner hinges, volume I very good with rubbing to upper boards and side of spine affecting gilt. Ref: 112532 Price: HK$ 15,000