South-east England, 1740s: war and heated politics bring the old practice of smuggling to new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorise communities and confound government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these, the Hawkhurst Gang, operate like a modern drug cartel fuelled by illegal tea. They threaten witnesses and authorities, brandish weapons in public, and fight battles in the streets, murdering and kidnapping those who get in their way. Enter a world filled with gangsters, corrupt politicians, crooked law enforcement, and vigilantes, brought to the brink by Britain's most notorious smuggling gang.

The papers in this volume are by past holders of the Cambridge post of Munby Fellow, founded in 1977 in memory of the bibliographical scholar, Alan Munby. Covering a diverse range of topics, they illustrate the variety of ways in which bibliographical evidence is used to determine significant features of both and printed books.

It's essential and always helpful to know about the things used by a large population daily. This valuable work on tobacco, tea, and coffee focuses on the advantages and disadvantages resulting from the consumption of these items. Based on the principles of medicine and chemistry, this treatise was ascertained by observation and experience. The author and Danish physician, Simon Paulli, efficiently lists directions for knowing the particular cases and situations in which these commodities are helpful or hurtful. Paulli includes his research to show the similarities between the Chinese or Asiatic Tea and the European Chamelæagnus, or Myrtus Brabantica. Each topic in this work is explained with great accuracy and detail.

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.

A harrowing chronicle of England's early-eighteenth century 'gin craze.--The Atlantic Monthly

By tracking the rise of the Anodyne Necklace through its various forms of print by which a gullible public was manipulated, there is a microtome slice through the 18th century uses of text in promotion and advertising. This work should be of interest to students of advertising.