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2008 · Mansfield Centre, CT
by Bragge, William
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2008. cloth. Tobacco. tall 8vo. cloth. 3 pages, l., ii, (5)-248 pages. Facsimile of the 1880 original edition privately publishing in Birmingham and limited to 200 copies. It took Bragge twenty years to put together this collection of books and objects relating to tobacco. Included is a chronological list of 409 titles of books, and a classified catalogue (with separate t.-p.) of about 13,000 objects connected with the use of tobacco ("an ethnographic collection ... pipes, snuff mills and snuff rasps ... snuff bottles," fire strikers, tinder boxes, etc. Very scarce in the original. (Inventory #: 102009)