Research Catalog

Title

The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco : whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...

Publication

London : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676.

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Additional Authors

• Hancock, John, active 17th century.
• James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
• Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?
• Thomson, George, active 1648-1679.
• Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.
• Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.
• Everard, Giles.
• Wither, George, 1588-1667.
• Riviere (Firm) bnd

Description

[8], 72 [i.e. 70] p. : ill.; 19 cm. (4to)

Uniform Title

Broadside against coffee. 1676.

Alternative Title

Trial of tobacco.

Subjects

• Tobacco > Poetry > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco use > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Smoking in art > Early works to 1800
• Coffee drinking > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco > Physiological effect > Early works to 1800
• Alcoholism > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Coffee > Poetry > Early works to 1800
• Cunliffe, Henry > Provenance

Note

• Dedication signed: J.H. (i.e. John Hancock).
• Previously published under title: Two broad-sides against tobacco (London : Printed for John Hancock, 1672).
• Error in paging: nos. 63-64 omitted.
• Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.
• Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; full-page. Subject: "The picture represents the tobacchonists armes, and Turks coffee-house."
• Woodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental and criblé initials.

Contents

A counterblast to tobacco (p. 1-12) -- Dr. Maynwaring's serious cautions against tobacco, collected out of his Treatise of the scurvy, page 70 -- Preservation of health in the choice of drinks, and regular drinking / transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise of long life -- Another collection against tobacco-smoking / written by ... George Thompson, in his book Of preservation of the bloud -- Woe to drunkards : a sermon / preached many years since by Mr. Samuel Ward -- Tobacco battered and the pipes shattered ... / collected out of the famous poems of Joshua Sylvester, Gent. -- A broad-side against coffee, or, The marriage of the Turk -- Collection ... taken out of that book of Dr. Everard's, entituled, The vertue of tobacco -- A postscript, by way of apology.

Call Number

Arents 94-375

OCLC

NYPG94-B38445

Title

The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco : whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...

Imprint

London : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676.

Local Note

Binding: Red morocco, gilt, by Riviere.

Provenance: Henry Cunliffe, Esquire (bookplate).

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Local Subject

Cunliffe, Henry Provenance.

Added Author

Hancock, John, active 17th century.

James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676.

Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?

Thomson, George, active 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676.

Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676.

Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676.

Everard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676.

Wither, George, 1588-1667.

Riviere (Firm) Binder

Added Title

Broadside against coffee. 1676.

Trial of tobacco.

Research Call Number

Arents 94-375