According to its website, the Vintners’ Company can trace its history back to 1363 when it was awarded a royal charter to form a monopoly for trade with Gascony. This book provides a history of the company and the wine trade in England over a period of 600 years.

The front free end-paper is signed by the then Master of of the Vintner’s Company under an inscription which reads:

“Presented to Members of the Vintners’ Company on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1977.”

Publisher: Constable, London

Edition: 1977

Pages: 319

ISBN: 9780094619906

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