by S.W. Sillett
Published in 1970 by Impulse Books, Aberdeen.
| title | author | publisher | year (first) | isbn | language | pp | book | size | edition |
| Illicit Scotch | S.W. Sillett | Impulse Books, Aberdeen, SC | 1965 | - | english | 121 | hardcover, ill(bw) | 144x223 | 2nd; 1965 |
The introduction on the sleeve jacket reads as follows:
| Illicit Scotch is a book which no patriotic Scot or devotee of Scotch Whisky can afford to miss. It is a book to read, to reread and to keep. |
| Besides being an athoritative history of illicit distillation and whiksy smuggling from 1505 to the present day, it distils the very spirit of Scotia and its people through a wonderful collection of anecdotes - bith humorous and macabre - in which the sturdy independence and ingenuity of the Highlander is readily apparent. |
The contents of this book consist of
| chapter 1: | Origings and history of distillation - whisky as a medicine - early attemps to restrict its manufacture -the first Excise Act - coastal smuggling and its decine |
| chapter 2: | Whiksy supersedes ale and wine as the national beverage - smuggling in the Highlands |
| chapter 3: | Malcolm Gillespie |
| chapter 4: | The hey-day of whisky smuggling in the Highlands - the 1823 Excise Act - George Smith of Glenlivet -temperance reform - rise of the distilling industry - decline in smuggling |
| chapter 5: | The Hall of Fame |
| chapter 6: | Smuggling techniques |
| chapter 7: | Malt smuggling - the illicit distiller in eclipse - revival of illicit distilling and hoaxing after 1880 - the Cairnie Smuggling Case |
| chapter 8: | The twentieth century |
| Bibliography | |
| Glossary | |
| Illustrations: | There is one page with 4 black&white photographs in this book. |
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