A treatise on the origin, nature, and varieties of wine : being a complete manual of viticulture and œnology / y J.L.W. Thudichum and August Dupré.

  • Thudichum, J. L. W. (John Louis William), 1829-1901
Date:
1872
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Credit: A treatise on the origin, nature, and varieties of wine : being a complete manual of viticulture and œnology / y J.L.W. Thudichum and August Dupré. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. IN presenting this treatise to the public, the Authors have hardly any statement to make which is not contained or implied in the work itself. Nevertheless, as the title may fail in conveying fully the scope and intensity of their labours, they beg leave to supplement it by a short preliminary statement of the principles by which they have been guided. In the first place, the Authors determined to produce a strictly scientific work, based as far as possible upon their personal observations. Such have therefore been made in the vineyards, cellars, and repositories of many countries, in the respective chemical laboratories of the Authors, in public and private gardens, in open nature, and in mines underground. Wherever possible, they availed themselves of the writings of previous authors for the purpose of guiding or supplementing their observations, and with that object they have consulted and used nearly two hundred out of the six hundred works which compose the world’s oenological literature. The Authors next endeavoured to give due proportions to each of the elements of their treatise, so as to make it useful to the greatest possible number of readers. The planters of Australia or America will therefore find in it a concise