Author: PRESCOTT, Henry P.
Title: Strong Drink and Tobacco Smoke
Description: 1869. PRESCOTT, Henry P. STRONG DRINK AND TOBACCO SMOKE; the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco. With one hundred and sixty-seven original illustrations, drawn and engraved on steel. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869. First edition. Edited by T. H. Huxley. xii, 71 pp. of text, followed by a section of ten plates with [5] ff. of descriptive text, and 39 pp. of publisher's adv. 8vo. terra cotta cloth, gilt-stamped title at spine, deep blue coated endpapers. Ex library, with all the usual marks. Early ink ownership to half-title page. Faint foxing throughout, with some occasional thumbing in margins. Front hinge cracked, moderate soiling to cloth overall, rubbed at perimeters, but structurally sound and a serviceable copy. .

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