{"product_id":"sammelband-royal-oporto-wine-1824","title":"The Wine Question (1824)","description":"\u003cp\u003e1824 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. I. pp. [4], 65, 15. II. pp. [2], 5, [4], 40. III. pp. viii, 125. IV. pp. 24, [2].\u003cbr\u003e\nLondon; Porto\u003cbr\u003e\nWilson. Richardson. Booth. Ridgway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e19th-century half brown calf over marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, a red morocco lettering-piece, and gilt decoration. The spine is rubbed and worn at the head and tail and along the joints; board margins rubbed as well. Front free endpaper loose, with a small archival-tape repair at the top partially securing it. The text block carries sparse pencil annotations. The title page of the first work bears an early ink ownership inscription at its head, reading \"Robt Cockburn - Leith.\" The binding bears the signs of a well-used working copy, but remains sound overall. Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA remarkable contemporary sammelband documenting the Anglo-Portuguese controversy over the regulation of the Port wine trade and the Royal Oporto Wine Company, bringing together British mercantile arguments, a Portuguese response, and the Company's own proposed program of reform.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe four works trace a single, datable exchange. James Warre, a prominent London Port shipper, opened the pamphlet war in 1823, arguing from parliamentary duty-and-revenue figures that lower wine duties would raise, not lower, the Treasury's take - a case aimed as much at the Company's regulatory powers as at the Exchequer. Fleetwood Williams answered him the following year. The Wine Question Considered, published anonymously \"By a Portuguese\" in December 1824 and bound first in this volume, is the Portuguese-side rebuttal to both men, defending the Company's authority over demarcation, pricing, and blending on the Douro. Warre himself reissued his pamphlet within months as this volume's Second Edition, with Supplementary Observations, bound third here - answering his critics almost as quickly as they had answered him. The Companhia's own proposed reform plan of 1822, submitted to the Portuguese Cortes and bound fourth, and the London Association of Wine and Spirit Merchants' institutional report of 1826, bound second, extend the dossier on either side of the exchange proper. An early owner's ink inscription, \"Rob.t Cockburn - Leith,\" opens the volume - a name shared with the port and sherry house Cockburn founded in that same Scottish port in 1796, though the connection is not established.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI. The Wine Question Considered; or, Observations on the Pamphlets of Mr. James Warre \u0026amp; Mr. Fleetwood Williams, Respecting the General Company for the Agriculture of the Vineyards, on the Upper Douro, Known in England, under the Name of the Royal Oporto Wine Company (Anonymous, \"By a Portuguese\", 1824). Argues directly against Warre and Fleetwood Williams's published complaints about the Royal Oporto Wine Company, defending the Company's regulatory authority over demarcation, pricing, production, and blending on the Upper Douro. An appendix reprints a series of supporting documents: the first, headed \"No. I,\" is a translated circular letter the English factors at Oporto sent to their brokers on the Douro in September 1754 - a document the factors themselves called their \"New Instructions\" - together with the brokers' own answer to it, the two letters described as the origin of, and introduction to, the Wine Company's charter. Further documents follow in the same appendix, including the Douro wine brokers' own response to the circular.\u003cbr\u003e\nII. Report of the Proceedings of the London Association of Wine and Spirit Merchants, for the Year Ending 25th March, 1826. The London trade association's own annual report, printed by Charles Skipper, recording the Association's lobbying on behalf of the London wine and spirit trade. Particular attention falls on the Portuguese wine trade: the committee reports on negotiations between Britain and Portugal, cooperation with the London merchants trading with Oporto, and representations to the government over grievances arising from the Portuguese system. An appendix reproduces correspondence with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade, a memorial from Oporto merchants resident in London, and a notarized translation of an official edict published at Oporto.\u003cbr\u003e\nIII. James Warre, The Past, Present, \u0026amp; Probably the Future State of the Wine Trade; Proving that an Increase of Duty Caused a Decrease of Revenue; and a Decrease of Duty, an Increase of Revenue. Second Edition, with Supplementary Observations (1824). Founded on parliamentary and other authentic documents and addressed to the President and Members of the Board of Trade, the text argues that reducing wine duties increases Treasury revenue and raising them decreases it, opening with the epigraph \"Authority is sacred when Experience affords parallels and analogies,\" from D'Israeli on Predictions. Two extensive statistical appendices support the argument: Appendix B recapitulates British wine-duty rates and annual average consumption broken down by country of origin - Portugal, Spain, France, Madeira, the Rhineland, the Cape, and all other sources - across each period in which the duty changed; Appendix N tabulates British wine imports by country, year by year, from 1696 to 1785.\u003cbr\u003e\nIV. Plano para a Reforma da Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro: Remettido ao Soberano Congresso Nacional, pela Junta da mesma Companhia (Porto, 1822). The Companhia's own proposed reform plan, submitted to the Portuguese Cortes Geraes. Opens with the Cortes's order of 1 September 1821 and the Secretaria de Estado's covering letter of 5 September 1821 directing the Company's Junta to be heard on the plan, followed by the Junta's own representation on an additional article to the draft decree, dated 5 January 1822. Closes with a further representation dated Porto, 19 January 1822, signed by seven members of the Junta: P. Francisco de Sousa Cirne de Madureira, Manoel de Albuquerque de Mello Pereira Caceres, Gaspar Cardoso de Carvalho e Fonseca, Joao Ribeiro de Faria, Braz d'Abreu Aranha e Araujo, Jose de Sousa e Mello, and Antonio Bernardo de Brito e Cunha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Port wine trade war fought in print: British merchants against Portuguese protectionism, answered pamphlet for pamphlet, with duties, monopoly, free trade, and the quality of Port itself all at stake. Four works bound together while the argument was still raging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385897754859,"sku":"198-1824--1200.00-42.00-2026","price":1070.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00198_IMG_0226.jpg?v=1788994625","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-eux\/products\/sammelband-royal-oporto-wine-1824","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}