Buy this book on-line KINROSS,Lord: : The Kindred Spirit - A History of Gin & the House of BoothLONDON.NEWMAN NEAME LTD,1959.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.Owner inscrptn to half-title,no price-clip to dw/dj.Lightly marked pictorial dw/dj,with
a closed tear to foot of spine/
backstrip.Top edge,another closed tear and
some creasing,with miniscule loss to head of spine/backstrip.The top two corners also slightly rubbed.Green cloth bds with gilt juniper design to upper bd, gilt letters to spine/backstrip.8vo,100pp, pictorial eps,colour onlay frntis,b/w illus+photographs,colour illus.
A history of Gin and the House of Booth in yesteryear and today (1959).Since the days of her 'lamentable fall' Madame Geneva has steadily climbed the social ladder.Eyed with suspicion and distrust at first, this far from respectable camp-follower of the soldiers returning from the Dutch wars gradually learnt a smoothness of manner,and qualities of piquancy and charm that quickly made her what society calls 'a good mixer'.The ins and outs of Madame Geneva's social history
are told here against the background of her times,and against the equally fascinating background of the commercial history of one of the great distillers.The
House of Booth,its personalities and Arctic adventures,its gin and its consumers,form,as Lord Kinross shows,a colourful thread in the intricate web of our strange social history.Medical science
created it.War and its political aftermath
brought it to England.Gin was born in Holland,some time in the seventeenth century.A Dutch professor of chemistry,
Sylvius of Leyden,nursed and perfected the
spirit as he experimented away in his laboratory,distilling it from rye and rectifying - that is to say re-distilling
- it with the flavour of juniper berries.The French word for juniper is genievre,from which the new elixir became known as Geneva.Later the English,in their
down-to-earth fashion,contracted this to the less fancy monosyllable,gin.
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