J. G. Haddow.

Amber. All About It; Cope's Smokeroom Booklets no. 7

Liverpool: Cope Brothers & Co, 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. [viii], 59pp, [v: adverts]. Original colour illustrated wrappers, b&w and duo-tone adverts and illustrations, b&w frontis, title page printed in red and black. A short history of amber - concentrating heavily on amber in myth and literature - apparently drawn largely from German sources. Published by tobacco sellers Cope Brothers & Co. Extraordinary (and in one case rather racist) advertisements for tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, and snuff at the front and rear. Covers lightly rubbed, light chafing to edges else a lovely clean VG+ copy of this scarce booklet. Item #61332

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