This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Companys monopoly on the tea trade in 1833
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Companys monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.
Volume 1 General Introduction Literary Representations of Tea and the
Tea-Table General Introduction, Select Bibliography, Introduction, Nahum
Tate, Panacea: a Poem upon Tea (1700) On Tea Tables and Visiting Days
(1707) Peter Anthony Motteux, A Poem upon Tea (1712) Nathaniel Mist, Letters
for and against Tea-Drinking, Miscellany Letters (1722) Whipping-Tom: or, a
Rod for a Proud Lady, Discourse II. Of the Expensive Use of Drinking Tea
(1722) Discourse II. Melancholy Considerations of the Universal Poison
(1722) Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany (1723) Tea. A Poem. Or, Ladies
into China-Cups (1729) James Bland, Of her Temperance, An Essay in Praise
of Women (1733) John Waldron, A Satyr against Tea (1733) Tea, a Poem. In Th
ree Cantos (1743) John Lockman, To the Long-Conceald First Promoter of the
Cambrick and Tea-Bills (1746) The Tea Drinking Wife, and Drunken Husband
(1749) A New Tea-Table Miscellany (1750) George Colman, Number LX. Th
ursday, March 20,
1755. A Dialogue Between a Tea-Table and a Card-Table,
Connoisseur (17556) A Description of a Public Tea-Drinking, The Register
of Folly (1773) Timothy Touchstone, Tea and Sugar (1792) The Art of Making
Tea, a Poem, in Two Cantos (1797) Hans Busk, The Tea (1819) Editorial Notes
Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger
