Anonymous pamphlet [ by James Hamilton Fennell ] entitled 'A Looking Glass for Brewers', together with a type facsimile of a seventeenth-century pamphlet titled 'Warme Beere'.
Author:
[ James Hamilton Fennell, Victorian antiquary and botanist ]
Publication details:
Fennell's pamphlet dated from London, 1860. On title-page of facsimile of 'Warme Beere': 'Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for Henry Overton, and are to be sold at his shop entering into Pope's-head Alley out of Lumbard Street in London. 1641.
£120.00
SKU: 17146
Both items 8pp., 4to. Both are disbound pamphlets on wove paper. The 'Looking Glass' has the leaves separated, but the two are otherwise in good condition, lightly-aged. Fennell's pamphlet is subtitled 'Wherein they may see their origin and dignity, together with the curious customs of their ancient craft'. The facsimile is subtitled: 'Or, A Treatise wherein is declared by Many Reasons, that Beere so qualified is farre more wholesome than that which is drunke cold. With a Confutation of such Objections that are made against it; published for the Preservation of Health.' Both items are now scarce.