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 3 Tea, Commerce and the East India Company Introduction Humphrey
Broadbent, The Domestick Coffee-Man, shewing the True Way of Preparing and
Making of Chocolate, Coffee and Tea (1722) Great Britain, Commissioners of
Excise, Instructions to be Observed by the Officers Employd in the Duty on
Coff ee, Tea, and Chocolate, in London (1724) The Case of the Dealers in Tea
([ 1736]) [ Matthew Decker], Serious Considerations on the Several High Duties
which the Nation in General (as well as its Trade in Particular) Labours
Under (1743) Considerations on the Duties upon Tea, and the Hardships
sufferd by the Dealers in that Commodity (1744) Jonas Hanway, Essay on Tea
(1756) Stephen Theodore Janssen, Smuggling Laid Open, in all its Extensive
and Destructive Branches (1763) Pehr Osbeck, A Voyage to China and the East
Indies (1771) The Chinese Traveller (1772) John Entick, Empire of China
(1774) [ William Smith], Tsiology; a Discourse on Tea (1826) Editorial Notes
Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Ben Dew, Matthew Mauger
