All Color Book of Wine By David Milligan
All Color Book of Wine By David Milligan (Collectible First Edition Copy)
A Beautifully Illustrated, Highly Popular 1970s Visual Masterclass Tracing Global Winemaking Traditions, Cellar Craft, and Regional Terroirs
A Beautifully Illustrated, Highly Popular 1970s Visual Masterclass Tracing Global Winemaking Traditions, Cellar Craft, and Regional Terroirs
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: All Color Book of Wine
- Author: David Milligan
- Publisher: Octopus Books Ltd, London
- Publication Date: 1974
- ISBN-10: 0706402936
- ISBN-13: 9780706402933
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing (Collectible Visual Wine Release)
- Binding: Original publisher's premium hardcover cloth boards, complete with the original illustrated dust jacket, now beautifully preserved and stabilized inside a clear Cellophane archival sleeve.
- Physical Format: Large Format Coffee-Table Quarto (4to), 100 pages. Lavishly enhanced with full-bleed, vibrant full-color documentary photography, geographic wine-district charts, and historical grape harvest graphics.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus to Near Mint (VG+/NM)
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's heavy cloth casing remains in spectacular, flat, and sharp-cornered condition. The spine text is perfectly crisp, bright, and completely undamaged at the head and tail bands, leaving the binding perfectly true and unbent.
- Interior: The inner hinges and structural binding are pristine and tight. Internal pages and heavyweight glossy color plates are completely clean, crisp, stark white, and intact. Free from standard consumer ink inscriptions, vineyard stains, or dealer pencil annotations.
- Preservation: This book has clearly been exceptionally well maintained and looked after thus far. It is now protected with a clear Cellophane cover to shield the binding from future edge wear.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: Present, complete, and unclipped. Displays only some very slight, microscopic signs of storage shelf friction along the corners and upper margins. Beautifully consolidated, bright, and seamlessly displayed beneath the archival Cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Viticultural Value
Published in 1974 by the iconic illustrated house Octopus Books, All Color Book of Wine stands as a masterfully constructed, visually stunning survey of winemaking across the globe. Written by the highly regarded wine consultant and author David Milligan, this classic volume captures the comprehensive story of winemaking from grape harvest to bottling.
Milligan breaks down the entire international wine landscape by exploring the unique historical roots, climate configurations, and traditional cellar mechanics that define the world's most celebrated appellations. The book’s core strength lies in its superb, full-color documentary photography, which carries readers behind the scenes into the grand chateaux of Bordeaux, traditional family estates in Burgundy, sun-drenched vineyards in California, and emerging New World valleys. Pairing visual elegance with accessible prose, this scarce 1970s coffee-table volume remains an essential addition for vintage cookbook collectors, viticultural historians, and lifestyle libraries.
Author Profile: David Milligan
David Milligan was a highly accomplished British-born international wine consultant, author, educator, and marketing executive who spent over four decades at the forefront of the global wine trade. Renowned for his extraordinary palate and deep expertise in European appellation frameworks, Milligan relocated to the United States in the early 1970s, where he played a pivotal role in establishing major wine import corporations and educating the North American consumer market on fine French vintages. His writing for prominent visual publishing houses like Octopus Books was highly celebrated for stripping away pretentious snobbery, combining rigorous technical winemaking metrics with a lively, highly engaging narrative pace.
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