The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco
Subtitle: 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 ..
Contributors: Hancock, John, fl. 1638-1675; Hancock, John, fl. 1669-1705; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Everard, Giles.; Wither, George, 1588-1667
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2230:6
Publisher: Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers
Published: 1676
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Tobacco use -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Tobacco -- Physiological effect -- Early works to 1800; Tobacco -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800; Smoking in art -- Early works to 1800; Coffee habit -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Coffee -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800; Alcoholism -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800; Poetry
Other titles: Trial of tobacco; Broadside against coffee. 1676
Work titles: Two broad-sides against tobacco
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]p4s B-Kp4s

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

Wing (2nd ed.) J144A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1994. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2230:6)
Table of contents: title: A counterblast to tobacco (p. 1-12); title: Dr. Maynwaring's serious cautions against tobacco, collected out of his Treatise of the scurvy, (p. 70); title: Preservation of health in the choice of drinks, and regular drinking  / transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise of long life; title: Another collection against tobacco-smoking / written by ... George Thompson, in his book Of preservation of the bloud; title: Woe to drunkards : a sermon / preached many years since by Mr. Samuel Ward; title: Tobacco battered and the pipes shattered ... / collected out of the famous poems of Joshua Sylvester, Gent.; title: A broad-side against coffee, or, The marriage of the Turk; title: Collection ... taken out of that book of Dr. Everard's, entituled,  The vertue of tobacco; title: A postscript, by way of apology