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A very smart first edition of this anniversary celebration from Taylor's Port, with a signed presentation card. First edition. With a signed presentation card inserted loosely to the front of the work. Signed by Huyshe Bower, an English Port expert who established first a European, and then a worldwide distribution network for Taylor""s; Alistair Robertson, a Portuguese-born British wine expert with close connections with the Port wine trade who encourages the growing interest in fine wines in places such as North America and Asia; and Bruce Guimaraens; a Portuguese-British port wine maker. All of whom worked for Taylor's Port. With maps and illustrations throughout. Published to mark the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the House of Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman, one of the largest port wine houses. Founded in 1692 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal by Job Bearsley, becoming Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman when Joseph Taylor, John Alexander Fladgate and Morgan Yeatman formed a partnership in 1838, it is also one of the oldest. With chapters on the company, the estates, the wines, and more. Edited by Christopher Foulkes. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine
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