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Scotch in Miniature : a collector's guide / by Alan Keegan. Illustrations by Mairi Hedderwick.

LIBRA - Blank Collection TP605 .K44 1991
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Keegan, Alan.
Contributor:
Hedderwick, Mairi, illustrator.
Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Whiskey--Scotland.
Whiskey.
Liquor bottles.
Penn Provenance:
Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
Physical Description:
96 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
Edition:
New and revised edition
Place of Publication:
Aberdeenshire, Scotland : Printed and Published for Northern Books by Famedram Publishers, 1991.
Contents:
Some History
Collecting Miniature Whiskies
Enjoying Miniature Whiskies
Definitions
True Miniatures
Painting on a Small Scale
Proof
Disappearing Miniatures
Label Language
Variants
Shapely Bottles, Pretty Labels
Miniatures and Literature
'Own Label' Miniature Whiskies
Miniatures for Promoting Products other than Whiskey
Miniatures as Souvenirs
Miniatures for Special Occasions
Label Printing
Jugs, Jars, Flagons and Flasks
Miniature Flagons
Novelties and Curiosities
Displaying Miniatures
Vatted Malt Miniatures
Scotch Whiskey Liqueurs
Single Malt Whiskies
Using Malt Whiskey Miniatures as Samplers
The Age of Malt Whiskey
Glenlivet and the Definite Article
More about Proof
Merchant Bottling of Malt Whisky
Glen Grant and Gordon & MacPhail
Wm Cadenhead's Miniatures
Other Unofficial Bottlings
Tasting Malt Whiskies
Tasting Experience
Malt Distilleries and Associated Blends
Limited Editions and Rare Malt Miniature
The Mini Bottle Club.
Notes:
First published 1982. Reprinted and revised 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1988. New edition 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).
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.
ISBN:
0905489454
9780905489452
OCLC:
27850786

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