8vo. [4], 140, 46pp, [2]. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, lightly marked, spine dulled.Very occasional light spotting.

A series of essays by brewer's chemist Joseph Holmes, originally published in Holmes’ Brewing Trade Gazette, a monthly journal cataloguing Holmes' entrepreneurship, the workings of his brewery, and decorated with countless advertisements for his own products. The temperance movement, popular among Quakers, Methodists, and the Salvation Army, would condemn the writings in the Gazette as tyrannical, with Canon Wilberforce proclaiming that 'he had been told by publicans that the tyranny which they suffered from some brewers was little short of slavery'.