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Complete Run of Cope's Tobacco Plant 1870-1881

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Title: Cope's Tobacco Plant. A Monthly Periodical, Interesting to the Manufacturer, the Dealer, and the Smoker. Volumes I & II complete (all published).
Author: Fraser, John, publisher
Description: 130 monthly issues bound in 2 volumes. 1024; 583 pp. Four full page lithographs; 2 mounted examples of chromolithograph labels; numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (4to) 13x8¼, modern brown leather, spines lettered in gilt.A complete run of this very scarce periodical devoted to the agriculture, manufacture, and use of tobacco in its various forms. Primarily an advertising vehicle for the assorted tobacco products manufactured by Cope Brothers & Co. of Liverpool. Includes historical writings, tobacco in prose and poetry, agricultural advice and advances; etc. The January, 1875 issue contains a poem falsely attributed to Walt Whitman; the April, 1879 and November, 1880 issues contain genuine submissions by Whitman. The May, June, August, September and December, 1880 issues contain a serialized biographical sketch of Whitman by James Thompson.
Heading: zze(Tobacco)Place Published: Liverpool
Publisher: John Fraser
Date Published: 1870-1881