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Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

23 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.3 x 18 cm

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

1 painting : watercolour ; image 15 x 12 cm

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

Cholera : The following admirable letter from an eminent physician of great experience appears in the York Herald of Saturday last, and is re-printed in this form as likely to be of essential service in allaying the unfounded alarm which at present prevails to so great an extent : Sunderland, November 15th, 1831 ... / Wm. Rocliffe.

An engraved business card for John Morris's wine and spirits shop in London. Probably late 18th century. The card shows a large bunch of grapes with leaves above the text.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 1.

John Morris : wine & brandy merchant, 5 King Street, Westminster.

The histograms show a 13% fall in the price of brandy and a 70% rise in the price of wine compared with the 1914 level

Statistics on alcoholism in Switzerland.

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, orange and green ; sheet approximately 99.7 x 70 cm

Histograms contrasting the decrease in the price of brandy with the increase in the price of wine in Switzerland 1914-1927. Colour lithograph, ca. 1929.

Patent for "a composition which after a few hours taking is an effectual and certain cure for the ague, and which I call Foster's compound".

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

1 print : engraving ; border 2.6 x 7.2 cm

An ornamental French cognac label. Engraving, 18--.

A sick man sits in an armchair, his left foot resting on a cushion. He grimaces and clenches his left fist in pain. In the foreground, a book inscribed "Scudamore on gout", presumably referring to Charles Scudamore, A treatise on the nature and cure of gout and rheumatism, of which a 3rd edition appeared in 1819. Left on table, a bottle of "Reynold's drops". In the sufferer's left hand is a bottle of "Brandy", and a jar of brandy lies beneath the table, left. Right, a jar of "Thompson and Fear-him's mixture"

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image and lettering 12.5 x 9.9 cm

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Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

John Morris : wine & brandy merchant, 5 King Street, Westminster.

Histograms contrasting the decrease in the price of brandy with the increase in the price of wine in Switzerland 1914-1927. Colour lithograph, ca. 1929.

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

An ornamental French cognac label. Engraving, 18--.

A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.

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Specification of Joseph Collett : medicine.

A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

A young man is handing out a glass of brandy from one of the bottles in his tray. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello e Bianchi.

A street vendor of brandy is carrying a tray with bottles and glasses in it. Watercolour painting.

John Morris : wine & brandy merchant, 5 King Street, Westminster.

Histograms contrasting the decrease in the price of brandy with the increase in the price of wine in Switzerland 1914-1927. Colour lithograph, ca. 1929.

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

An ornamental French cognac label. Engraving, 18--.

A man with gout who finds the remedies worse than the disease. Etching by T.L. Busby, 182-.

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