1962-1978 A Collection on Tobacco Smoking and Snuff Taking

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Four volumes. A collection of studies on the history of tobacco products and the art of its use. With fascinating commentaries for the collector on wooden snuff boxes, snuff-blenders and the amusing history of snuff, the bygones of tobacco product and paraphernalia, the practical art of smoking, and the social history surrounding the practice. This set contains: Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking, 1962. Second impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty plates. Collated complete. Written by Edward H. Pinto, a British interior designer. Snuff: Yesterday & Today, 1963. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Written by C. W. Shepherd, a British writer on wines, old inns, and tobacco. Tobacco and the Collector, 1966. First edition. Illustrated with four plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. Written by Amoret and Christopher Scott, British antique collectors and writers. The Gentle Art of Smoking, 1978. Seventh impression. Illustrated with numerous in-text drawings. Written by Alfred Dunhill, an English tobacconist, entrepreneur and inventor. He is the progenitor of Alfred Dunhill, Ltd. a London-based luxury goods company and the Dunhill tobacco products company owned by British American Tobacco.