Corkscrews of the Eighteenth Century : artistry in iron and steel / Bertrand B. Giulian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giulian, Bertrand B.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corkscrews--History--18th century.

Corkscrews.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)

Physical Description:

236 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of color plates: illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

[Yardley, PA] : WhiteSpace Publishing, 1995.

Contents:

Introduction

The Earliest Corks

The Earliest Corkscrews

The Pocket Corkscrew

Traveling Corkscrews

Combination Corkscrews

Ornate Corkscrews

The Irish Corkscrew Makers

Samuel Henshall and the First Corkscrew Patent

Threshold to the Nineteenth Century

The American Experience

Fakes and Forgeries

Appendices: The Cork Stoppering of Bottles; On the Opening of Bottles; The London Spy; The Guild System; List of Corkscrew Makers; The Read Family; Samuel Henshall and Matthew Boulton; Other Works by Samuel Henshall; Sir Edward Thomason's Memoirs; Poem: The Bottle-Scrue; American Corkscrew Advertisements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-230) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Kislak copy inscribed "May 6th 1995. A Mon Ami Fritz, This is a small addition to your wonderful collection. In anticipation of a great class. Signature illegible".

ISBN:

0963920111 (cloth) :

9780963920119

OCLC:

31939018