Author: [George Thomas Fisher]
Title: Snuff & Snuff-Takers; Pungent, Piquant, Comical, Veritable, and Historical Disquisition, to Which Is Added a Dissertation on the Poetry of Sneezing
Description: London, Joseph Baker , 1846. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Joseph Baker's very scarce pamphlet concerned with snuff and snuff takers. The first edition of this work. A very scarce copy, rarely seen in commerce and found institutionally only at the British Library and the library at the University of Liverpool. Published anonymously, attributed to George T Fisher. Featuring a frontispiece and numerous vignette woodcuts in text. Printed and published by Joseph Baker, cigar merchant, dealer in Meerchaums &c. Concerned with snuff and snuff takers, with an essay on the "poetry of sneezing."Complete with nine leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's wraps. Both front and rear wraps loose but present. Considerable loss to spine. Chipped to extremities of wraps with Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean with a touch of age toning, as usual with the type of paper used. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .

Keywords: snuff tobacco addiction habit tobacco Not Stated


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