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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1676
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Two broad-sides against tobacco.
Trial of tobacco

Publication/Creation

London : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676.

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages, 72 pages : illustrations

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) J144A

Notes

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.

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.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2230:6) s1999 miun s

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