English Delftware Drug Jars: The Collection Of The Museum Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Of Great Britain - Hardcover

 
9780853696438: English Delftware Drug Jars: The Collection Of The Museum Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Of Great Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0853696438 ISBN 13: 9780853696438
Verlag: Pharmaceutical Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This beautiful book contains the first ever comprehensive survey and catalogue of the collection of English delftware drug jars held in the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The book also includes details of tin-glazed barbers' bowls, pill tiles and posset pots in the collections.

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Briony Hudson is Keeper of the Museum Collection of the RPSGB and a Committee Member of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy (BSHP). She has previously co-authored a book on the history and use of liquorice (Hudson B, Van Riel R. Liquorice, Wakefield: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, 2003)

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Today, English delftware drug jars are rare and extremely collectable. The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain holds one of the finest collections of English delftware drug jars in the world, and this beautiful book contains the first comprehensive survey and catalogue of the collection. The book also includes details of tin-glazed barbers bowls, pill tiles and posset pots in the collections.Delftware drug jars were originally manufactured in London around 1570. They were expensive, highly prized objects, used by successful apothecaries for storage of pills, ointments, syrups, oils and confections. They were often lavishly decorated and labelled to indicate their contents. Contents include:-History of the Society s delftware collection-History of English delftware drug jars-Over 220 individual catalogue entries, including individual photographs of each itemThis unique and specialist publication will appeal to historians, collectors and libraries alike and also to anyone with an interest in archaeology and medicinal history.

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Verlag
Pharmaceutical Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0853696438
ISBN 13 
9780853696438
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Hudson Briony
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