Full title: A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the formation of vineyards in England. By William Speechly, Gardener to the Duke of Portland.
Published in 1790, this is a facsimile reprint edition.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Edition: 2009
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Originally published in 1775, this is a facsimile reprint. According to James Gabler this is the first book in English that discusses modern wines.
Publisher: Unknown
Edition: 2010
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This book is a modern English version of the text of William Turner’s “A New Boke of the Natures and Properties of all Wines that are Commonlye Vsed here in England”, originally published in 1568. This was the first book on wine written in the English language.
The book contains a facsimile copy of the original held by the Library of Congress, a modern English transcription, plus a thirty-seven page commentary, bibliography and oenological note by Sanford V. Larkey and Philip M. Wagner.
A very interesting read for those interested in the history of wine or medical science. The book was written in an age before the modern understanding of how the human body works and the association between the use of different types of wine and the various “humours of the body” is fascinating. The science that these descriptions are based on were founded in the writings of Roman physicians such as Galen and Pliny.
The 1568 text is more or less uniteliigable to the average reader, making this 1941 edition with its modern English translation an important addition to the original.
Publisher: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints New York
Edition: 1941
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The title says it all. 
Publisher: Cassell & Co.
Edition: 200:002
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Published in 1956, this book provides an account of the authors’ various trips to Portugal, including Oporto and a number of well-known quintas in the Douro.
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode
Edition: 1956
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This book provides a concise history and description of the various regions of Portugal and Madeira with very few references wine.
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Ltd.
Edition: 1954
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Published in 1949, this book is an account of the authors’ visits to many places throughout Portugal with a particular focus on architecture of historic monuments, churches, etc.
Publisher: Evans Brothers Limited
Edition: 1949
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A great little book containing 656 pages of information plus 36 maps and plans. Everything the modern traveller required to find their way around the Iberian peninsula in 1930.
Publisher: Simpkin Marshall Ltd.
Edition: 1930
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Written by the author of Oporto, Old and New, this is a series of tales and fables from Portuguese and Spanish folklore that the author asserts had rarely, if ever, been committed to print prior to him doing so.
The book is listed in various wine book bibliographies but, having scanned its pages, I am struggling to see why other than the author’s link to the port trade.
Publisher: Field & Tuer
Edition: 1888
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The title page of Portugal, Old and New by Oswald Crawfurd, Her Majesty’s Consul in Oporto, says “By the author of Latouche’s Travels in Portugal”.
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co.
Edition: 1878
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