The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco : 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 ...

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Publication InfoLondon : Printed and are to be sold by the several booksellers, 1676.
Description[6], 72 p. : ill.
Supplemental Contenthttps://search.proquest.com/docview/2240903200
Subjects
Tobacco habit--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.

Other author/creatorHancock, John, fl. 1638-1675.
Other author/creatorHancock, John, fl. 1669-1705.
Other author/creatorJames I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676.
Other author/creatorMaynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?
Other author/creatorThomson, George, fl. 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676.
Other author/creatorWard, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676.
Other author/creatorSylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618 Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676.
Other author/creatorEverard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676.
Other author/creatorWither, George, 1588-1667.
Uniform titleTwo broad-sides against tobacco.
Other title Trial of tobacco
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
Contents A counterblast to tobacco (p. 1-12) -- Dr. Maynwaring's serious cautions against tobacco, collected out of his Treatise of the scurvy, (p. 70) -- Preservation of health in the choice of drinks, and regular drinking / transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise of long life -- Another collection against tobacco-smoking / written by ... George Thompson, in his book Of preservation of the bloud -- Woe to drunkards : a sermon / preached many years since by Mr. Samuel Ward --Tobacco battered and the pipes shattered ... / collected out of the famous poems of Joshua Sylvester, Gent. -- A broad-side against coffee, or, The marriage of the Turk -- Collection ... taken out of that book of Dr. Everard's, entituled, The vertue of tobacco -- A postscript, by way of apology.
General noteDedication signed: J.H. (i.e. John Hancock).
General notePreviously published under title: Two broad-sides against tobacco (London : Printed for John Hancock, 1672).
General noteSignatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.
General noteIllustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; full-page. Subject: "The picture represents the tobacchonists [sic] armes, and Turks coffee-house."
General noteWoodcut and type flower headpieces; ornamental and criblé initials.
General noteReproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
References Wing (2nd ed.) J144A
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2230:6)
Contains title Broadside against coffee. 1676.
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