The curious smelling-bottle, called Le sel poignant d'Angleterre, ...
Dalmahoy, Alexander,1723-1781.
Boswell, James,1740-1795.
[London?,
1785?]
The whole is printed on one side to resemble a newspaper cutting and the text is repeated on the verso.
With reference to Archibald Eglinton, 11th Earl of Eglinton and his second wife, Frances Twisden.
An advertisement for smelling salts which were prepared by Alexander Dalmahoy in Ludgate-Hill, London.
Together with a poem of six stanzas to the right of the advertisement entitled 'For the European evening post. Too true a prophesy.', which is signed "Through.". Generally attributed to James Boswell the Elder.
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