Carbonated Beverages. The art of making, dispensing & bottling soda-water, mineral-waters, ginger-ale & sparkling-liquors. [issued together with:] Catalogue of apparatus, materials, and accessories, for making bottling, and dispensing Carbonated Beverages, including soda-water, mineral spirits, & sparkling liquors
New York: P.H. Reilly, Wood-Cut and Color Printer, 25 Rose Street, 1882. Quarto (27 x 20.5 cm.), 108, [4], 166, [2] pages. Profusely illustrated. Text in two columns. Table of contents at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early – perhaps the first – history of carbonated beverages. Issued together with a trade catalogue for the soda water supply firm of John Matthews of New York, an important manufacturer of bottling equipment.....