[Scrap-book
Subtitle: containing miscellaneous collection of plates and newspaper clippings relating to tobacco, together with MS. copies of various early works on tobacco.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Tobacco; Smoking
Description: Includes the following, chiefly in manuscript transcription: "A catch on tobacco, sung by four smoking pipes"; Sylvester's Tobacco Battered and Pipes shattered about the Ears, that idly Idolize so base a Weed; Barclay's Nepenthus, or The vertues of tobacco (pub. in Edinburgh, 1614); Wine, beer, ale, and tobacco contending for superiority, a dialogue (1630); The venemous qualities of tobacco; Venner's Treatise on Tobacco. Also contains advertisements, color prints on subjects against public smoking, and other items.
Notes: Manuscripts written in several hands, prints, and clippings.