Andre-Louis Simon

Andre-Louis Simon , bibliographer, writer

It is a contributor among most influential of the literature of the Vin, the enology and the culinary studies and the Gastronomie. He wrote many English works, like in French. He is president in the Années 1930 of The Wine and Food Society .

Publications

has History off the Wine Trade in England. Vol.1: The first times at the 14th century. Vol.2 (1907): S.A rare and important study.
Bibliotheca Vinaria. In Bibliography off Books and Lampoons Dealing with Vine growing, Wine-Making, Distillation, the Management, Salts, Taxation, Use and Abuse off Wines and Spirits. London: Grant Richards, 1913. Republished by Stephanie Hoppen with the editions Holland Close according to a manuscript preserved at the library of the Wine Trade Club, where the author had carried many increases and corrections autographs.
In Vino Veritas: In Book Wine Butt. Grant Richards London 1913 . They report conferences given by Simon to the Wine Trade Club during the winter of 1912-13.
The Blood off the Bunch: The Wine Trade Textbook. Duckworth & Co. London. 1920. They report conferences delivered by Simon in Wine Trade Club during the winter of 1919-20.
Wine and Spirits: The Connoisseur' S Textbook. Duckworth & Co. London. 1919. It is a compilation of articles which he had written for a magazine. A wine history around the world. The introduction contains interesting comments about the American Temperance Movement.
Almanac of the Frank drinker for 1926 (with the coll.de Leon Baranger). The Book, 1926.
Bibliotheca Bacchica. Reasoned bibliography of the works printed before 1600 and illustrating human thirst under all its aspects,… London and Paris, Maggs Brothers 1927 - 1932. London: Holland Close 1972. An important complement with the bibliography of Vicar with more than 700 entries described in detail. Books on the vine growing, enology, the manners of being held with table, intoxication, the payments and the trade of the wine and much other subjects concerning the wine. Gerard Oberlé describes this edition like " the most beautiful bibliography never printed on the old books relating to Bacchus and his territories ". It indicates that the author had undoubtedly projected to publish 4 volumes one per century. Only the two first appeared concerning S. two volumes were printed by Walter Lewis with the Cambridge University Close. A leading bizarrery made that volume 1 was drawn only with 250 specimens and volume 2 to 275 specimens.
The Art off Good Living room. In Contribution to the better Understanding off Food and Drink together with has Gastronomic Vocabulary and has Wine Dictionary. With… has foreword by Maurice Healy. London, 1929.
Leaves from my Diary . Constable. London, 1933.
Wine and the Wine Trade . Sir Isaac Pitman and Sounds, London, 1934.
has Wine Primer . London, Joseph, 1946.
The Wines off The World. Pocket Library boxed set off Hock, Champagne, Sherry, Sauternes, Port, Claret, Burgundy, & South Africa, 8 volumes. Published by The Wine and Food Society, London, 1949, 1950.
has Dictionary Gastronomy off. Wine and Food Society, 1949.
Bibliotheca Gastronomica. Catalog off Books and Documents there is Gastronomy. The Production, Taxation, Distribution and Consumption off Food and Drink. Their uses and Abuse in all Times and Among all Peoples. London: the Wine and Food Society, 1953. Catalog personal collection of the author; 1644 numbers with for some of the notes.
English Fare and French Wines. Being Notes towards the furtherance off the Gastronomical Harmony. London, 1955. Mc Graw Hill, 1969.
Noble The Bunches and the Great Wines off France. New York, Toronto and London, McGraw-Hill, 1957. " This book is entirely different from approximately an about sixty which I wrote during the fifty last years. It is a book which contrary to all the books which were published on the subject of the wines of France. Why? Because it is the first book which gives a true image of some as of these wines makes various kinds of grapes. It is the first time in the history of the trade of the wine and the book which you will be able to see exact dimension, forms and color of the wines with each principal variety of raisins"
The Wine & Food Society off Southern California: In History with Bibliography off Andre-L has. Simon. Los Angeles: Anderson, Ward Ritchie & Simon 1957.
The Star Chamber dinner accounts being nap hitherto unpublished Accounts off Dinners provided for the Lords off the Privy Council in the Star Chamber, Westminster, during the Reigns off Queen Elizabeth I and King James I off England. George Rainbird for The Wine and Food Society London 1959. A collection collected by the author of the expenditure for the lavished meals provided for the sovereign during the Star Chamber.
The History off Champagne . Ebury Close, 1962. Simon completely treats all the champagne aspects and the history of industry since his origins.
In The Twilight. London: Michael Joseph, 1969. A Autobiography written at the 92 years age, by describing its exceptional career as gastronomical author and wine expert.

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