1935 The Book of Snuff and Snuff Boxes Mattoon M Curtis Hardcover Illustrated

1935 The Book of Snuff and Snuff Boxes Mattoon M Curtis Hardcover Illustrated This book begins with chapters on the history of tobacco- namely chapters on tobacco in pre-colonial America, its introduction, in Europe, European opposition to tobacco, modes of production and consumption of snuff, the form and matter of containers, collecting snuff containers and collections of them. As the author says in his introduction: "this book is the offspring of a desire to make clear to myself the rise, development and disappearance of the great vogue of snuffing tobacco which for about three hundred years played one of the most dramatic roles in the social lives of modern peoples. This book examines the rise, extension and disappearance of snuffing