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[A] perfect view of the Gin Act, with its unhappy consequences; Containing not only an inquiry into, but also a full account of the power of the justices of the peace, as limited by that law. The whole illustrated with well-attested cases of some unhappy sufferers from the villanies of persidious informers. By Reay Sabourn, gent.
Sabourn, Reay.Date: 1738- Books
Dedalus book of gin / Richard Barnett.
Barnett, Richard, 1980-Date: 2011- Books
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The life of Mother Gin; containing a true and faithful relation of her conduct and politicks, in all the various and important occurrences of state that she was engaged in during her Time; her Transactions with several eminent Patriots and great M-s; particularly, in the four last years of the late Q-n; with the secret Motives, and true Reasons of her Fall; and a Detection of the Views of the Authors of it. By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Archives and manuscripts
On the use of gin in infancy
Date: 1925Reference: PP/BAR/J/13Part of: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
On the use of gin in infancy
Date: 1925Reference: PP/BAR/J/14Part of: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)- Books
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The true explanation of the humours of the cheating age, or, a brief account of the behaviour of the town misses, pluchimin landlords, quack-doctors, Intruding of petty fogging Lawyers, Cheats of Bom-Baliffs, the Gin-Shop chat, the Tea-Table chat. A Serious and Diverting Dialogue between Tom stitch the Taylor's Wife, and Sir John crack Finger the halfpenny Larber's Wife. With many other Comical and Pleasant Passages worthy of Note. (no. 112).
Date: [1800?]- Pictures
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A gin shop: an elegant young woman is selling gin to a group of paupers who are standing in a mantrap; the walls decorated with coffins; Death enters the room dressed as a nightwatchman. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1 November 1829Reference: 578909iPart of: Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.- Books
The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva : the eighteenth-century gin craze / Patrick Dillon.
Dillon, Patrick, 1962-Date: 2002- Pictures
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Belisarius. Engraving by A. Desnoyers, 1806, after F. Gerard.
Gérard, François, 1770-1837.Date: [1806?]Reference: 38192i- Books
Craze : gin and debauchery in an age of reason / Jessica Warner.
Warner, Jessica.Date: 2003- Books
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A letter from Capt. Flip to Major Bumbo: Wherein are vindicated, the injured characters of the late brave Admiral Punch, and his most accomplish'd daughters, the ladies Arrack, Coniac, Royal-Gin & Rumbo. Shewing, to a demonstration, the signal services this honourable and worthy family have done, and may do to this nation, in any expedition, either to Spithead, or the West-Indies; the necessity of restoring the degraded Admiral to his former post; the beneficial consequences of permitting his four amiable daughters to converse freely with our couragious sailors. Wrote in the marine style, by an officer on half-pay in the Royal-Navy.
Flip, Ferdinando.Date: 1738- Books
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The gin-Shop; Or, a Peep into a Prison.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1795]- Pictures
A gin palace as a "temple of Juniper", with other scenes illustrating puns. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 14 Feb 1834Reference: 640597iPart of: Everybody's album & caricature magazine- Books
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Inventing the cotton gin : machine and myth in antebellum America / Angela Lakwete.
Lakwete, Angela, 1949-Date: 2005- Pictures
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A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 26930i- Pictures
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A busy gin palace bar with customers buying drinks. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1842]Reference: 26470iPart of: The Drunkard- Pictures
A lank old man at a bar asks a plump barmaid for a glass of gin (left); a man touches his forelock to a man wearing a uniform (right). Etching.
Reference: 35866i- Student dissertations
Putting the genie back into the bottle : gin, government & health in eighteenth century London / Christopher Andrews.
Andrews, Christopher.Date: 2003- Pictures
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Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 26888i- Pictures
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Sarawak: a girl extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin. Photograph.
Reference: 30547i- Pictures
A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751Reference: 26961i- Pictures
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Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
Limner, Luke, 1822-1912.Date: [1847]Reference: 35846i- Pictures
People drinking in a gin palace; people consuming alcoholic drinks falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree. Line block (?) after G. Cruikshank, 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 26293i- Pictures
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West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 July 1808]Reference: 38477i- Pictures
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A dying wolf in a gin-trap in the forest. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.Reference: 39294i