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Robert Best Ede's new, cheap & complete series of labels, adapted to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh and Dublin, including the new and recently-discovered remedies; also duplicates & blanks; intended for fitting up chemists' shops, surgeries, dispensaries, &c.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 3 no 74
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ede, Robert Best.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain.
- Advertising--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Advertising.
- Labels--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Labels.
- Printed ephemera--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Printed ephemera.
- Chemistry.
- Genre:
- Ephemera.
- Advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 27 x 21 cm
- folio.
- Other Title:
- At head of title: Just Published. The cheapest and most complete label book ever submitted to the trade and medical public, containing one thousand, one hundred and twelve labels.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : R. B. Ede, 1836.
- Notes:
- "This flyer is advertising a variety of items sold by Ede, including one of Ede's more popular items, a set of 1,112 labels for the use of the 'medical public' used to label the chemicals and standard remedies and medicines in use at the time. The set contained 540 large labels, 400 small lables, and 170 duplicates and blanks (this totals 1110 labels, which does not match the amount of total labels, 1112, listed at the top of the flyer). The labels themselves were 'made up into books and printed on high-glazed bright yellow and green surface-coloured papers of the best quality.' A hard varnish, sold separately was used to adhere the labels to the bottles. The flyer has two black and white illustrations of the labels themselves, one large and one small. Other items advertised in the flyer are a chemical cabinet, mineralogical box, Highly concentrated aromatic spirits of vinegar, and a chemical marking ink. The back of the flyer features a smaller advertisement for another product of R. B. Ede & Co., 'Ede's Chemical Portable Laboratory' which consisted of a variety of items a chemist would need in his lab, in a smaller and portable size, all of which comes in a traveling case. The flyer features an engraving of the portable laboratory."--Vendor's description.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from Eclectibles.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 559367695
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