The Smoker's Text-Book Poetry--English 48mo - 3-7/8" x 2-9/16"

48mo - 3-7/8" x 2-9/16"

alphabet printed in black and red inside front cover (upper case) and inside back cover (lower case)

The preservation of these specific pieces provides critical mechanical insight into Edmund Evans’ pioneering color wood-engraving process (chromoxylography)

next to that is a drawing

The Smoker's Text-Book Poetry--English 48mo - 3-7/8" x 2-9/16"(Tobacco) Hamer, John (editor, printer and publisher). The Smoker's Text Book. Leeds: The Editor, 7, Briggate, Leeds, 1863. FIRST EDITION. 64mo 2 3 4" x 2 1 4". viii, 112 pp. Preceded by an engraved title page. Printed in "Brilliant" micro typography. Original publisher's brown cloth covered beveled boards, with titles and a decorative border stamped in gilt to the upper board; spine panel decorated and lettered in gilt; lower board replicates the