BEER
BEER
Exploring One of those “Lesser Paths” of History
“One Hundred Illustrations”
Larwood, Jacob, & John Camden Hotten. The history of signboards, from the earliest times to the present day... sixth edition. London: John Camden Hotten, 1867. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). Col. frontis., x, 536 pp.; 19 plts.
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Provenance: Title-page stamped by a private collector: “Thomas Witherell Palmer, Log Cabin Park” (Detroit).
• Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and ornate gilt-stamped decorations within compartments; binding with light to moderate rubbing overall, with spine leather starting to show some cracking. All edges stained red. 
Delightful reading and looking, and a delightful copy.
WHO
Gets the Beer, &
Why?(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Survivor of
a Kitchen Fire?(Gingerbread & Small
Beer). On paper, in English. "Receipts etc." [England?, late 18th-century]. 4to, 16 pp.
beer, sausage meat, bread and butter pudding, and two different ketchups, one based on walnuts and the other on mushrooms. The handwriting is careful and precise, neatly following drawn-in lines; heavy, dark swipes of ink stand in between recipes.
This recipe collection was perhaps originally part of a longer manuscript, and was very probably too useful for its own good to someone who kept it handy—at one point it was set alight, but made it through relatively unscathed.
•: Disbound, now in a Mylar folder; sewing of upper portion holding. Lower inner margin burned, touching first and last words of many lines. Spots of foxing and of discoloration; occasional pencil marks. Very readable despite damage, and not unattractive.
An
Act to Aid theEnglish Beer Industry
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc., 1760-1820 (George III). Anno regni Georgii III...undecimo.... [An Act for Granting a Bounty upon the Importation of White Oak Staves, and Heading, from the British Colonies or Plantations in America....] London: Pr. by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1771. Folio. [1] f., pp. 1227-1234.
English
brewers.
•: Removed from a volume and resewn. A clean copy.
Signed
Shrewsbury — Armorial
BindingIrish
Content
Talbot, John, 16th
Earl of Shrewsbury & Waterford. A letter to
the Right Hon. Nicholas, Lord Bexley, in reply to his Lordship's letter to the
freeholders of the county of Kent. London: Pr. by C. Richards
for Joseph Booker, 1829. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). [4], 106 pp. [bound with] Suggestions for
the improvement of the condition of the labouring poor. Addressed to every member
of the legislature.... London: Joseph Booker, 1831. 28 pp. [with]
Observations as intended to have been made...on occasion of the Earl of Wicklow's
motion for papers relative to the omission of Captn. Graham's name in the new
commission of the peace. [London: C. Richards, 1831]. 57, [1 (blank)] pp. [with]
Corrected report of the speech referred to in these observations, as given in
the Mirror of Parliament. 6, [2 (blank)] pp. 
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beer
and offers other means of assisting the poor; the third
(with its accompanying corrections, also “Not Published”) publicizes
certain strong remarks that Shrewsbury had not been permitted to deliver in
Parliament regarding an incidence of rioting in Ireland.
Author's
presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper “With the author's
sincere regards.”
• Contemporary morocco, covers gilt-stamped with Shrewsbury coat of arms (supported by two hounds — punning on Talbot — with a motto reading “prest d'accomplir”); front cover separated and back hinge(inside) reinforced with tape. Covers pressure-stamped by now-defunct institution, front cover leather scuffed in one place and back one partially discolored, spine worn and bearing paper shelving label. All edges gilt. Two instances of inked corrections; two pages ink-stamped. Not now in the state of splendor it must once have displayed, but distinctly worthy of time and attention.
Temperance
Tale in Verse Tom Toper's
tale over his jug of ale: being a particular account of a merry
day's drinking, with all the circumstances of the robbery, and a full history
of the battle. London: Pr. & sold by Howard & Evans, sold also by J. Burditt,
n.d. [ 1802?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• Uncut. Removed from a volume. (8454)
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