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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 ..
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Two broad-sides against tobacco.
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The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco [electronic resource] : 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 ...
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London : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676.
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[6], 72 p. : ill.
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Dedication signed: J.H. (i.e. John Hancock).
Previously published under title: Two broad-sides against tobacco (London : Printed for John Hancock, 1672).
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.
Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; full-page. Subject: "The picture represents the tobacchonists [sic] armes, and Turks coffee-house."
Woodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental and criblé initials.
Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2230:6)
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Trial of tobacco
Early English books online.
Broadside against coffee. 1676.
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Language
English
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July 19, 2020
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Contents
A counterblast to tobacco (p. 1-12)
Dr. Maynwaring's serious cautions against tobacco, collected out of his Treatise of the scurvy, (p. 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.
References
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), J144A
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