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Tobacco : its history and associations, use and abuse, including an account of the plant, and its modes of use in all ages and countries ...
- Title
- Tobacco : its history and associations, use and abuse, including an account of the plant, and its modes of use in all ages and countries ... : scrapbooks, 1836-ca. 1870.
- Author
- Gibbs, James.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Restricted use | Arents 02-90 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Davy, W.
- Description
- 3 v. : ill. (some col.); 39 cm.
- Summary
- Scrapbook containing selections and images from printed books (including title-pages, frontispiece portraits, and textual passages), clippings from newspapers and periodicals, manuscripts, prints, drawings, broadsides, tobacco trade cards, and advertisements. Materials date from between ca. 1620 and ca. 1870. The volumes have printed half-titles, title-pages, and imprint statements. Materials are tipped in or set into window-mounted sheets; ruling in red ink around mountings.
- Alternative Title
- History of tobacco illustrated
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Clippings.
- Advertisements – Tobacco.
- Prints.
- Drawings.
- Portraits.
- Note
- "Shewing it to be the solace of the king and the beggar; comprising prints and wood-cuts, portraits of renowned smokers, tobacco papers, numberless cuttings and extracts, pipes, cigars, snuff, and snuff boxes, and all the smoker's paraphernalia, consumption, revenue, &c. &c., in relation to this wonderful weed. London : J.G., 8, Great Newport Street, 1836." -- on printed title-page.
- Imprint statement on verso of title pages: "Privately printed by W. Davy, of Long Acre, for his friend J. Gibbs, September 1836."
- Binding: Half dark green morocco, gilt, and dark green cloth.
- Provenance (note)
- Selected and arranged by James Gibbs, with occasional manuscript notes, some signed by the collector, "J.G."
- Call Number
- Arents 02-90
- OCLC
- NYPG02-B1063
- Author
- Gibbs, James. Collector
- Title
- Tobacco : its history and associations, use and abuse, including an account of the plant, and its modes of use in all ages and countries ... : scrapbooks, 1836-ca. 1870.
- Provenance
- Selected and arranged by James Gibbs, with occasional manuscript notes, some signed by the collector, "J.G." NN.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Davy, W. Printer
- Research Call Number
- Arents 02-90