A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames;
through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. with miscellaneous thoughts... in sixty-four letters... To which is added An essay on tea... In two volumes. By Mr. H*****. The second edition corrected and enlarged
Stock Code 107487
London, printed for H. Woodfall, and C. Henderson, 1757
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Jonas Hanway's (d.1786) entertaining musings on various subjects, with the second volume given over to the author's eccentric views on the tea trade.
Hanway regarded tea as dangerous to the health, leading to scurvy, insomnia, dental deterioration, and gastrointestinal disorders. For this he was criticised by Samuel Johnson, a keen tea drinker, in the Literary Magazine and The Idler, where Hanway appeared as 'Dick Wormwood', a man whose sole delight is to find everything wrong.
Second edition, 2 vols; 8vo; 2 folding engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco labels, light wear to extremities, a very good example.
ESTC T130858.
Hanway regarded tea as dangerous to the health, leading to scurvy, insomnia, dental deterioration, and gastrointestinal disorders. For this he was criticised by Samuel Johnson, a keen tea drinker, in the Literary Magazine and The Idler, where Hanway appeared as 'Dick Wormwood', a man whose sole delight is to find everything wrong.
Second edition, 2 vols; 8vo; 2 folding engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco labels, light wear to extremities, a very good example.
ESTC T130858.
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