Tea and the tea-table in eighteenth-century England. Volume 1, Literary representations of tea and the tea trade / edited by Markman Ellis.

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...

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