Report By Her Majesty's Commissioners For Inquiring into the Licensing System, and Sale and Consumption of Excisable Liquors in Scotland, With Minutes of Evidence

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Published by Murray and Gibb, Edinburgh, 1860

About this Item

A very scarce report on the sale and consumption of liquor in Victorian Scotland. A very scarce work.Volume II only, of a total of two volumes.A study into the sale and consumption of liquors in Scotland during the Victorian era, an interesting look at the drinking culture and habits of the country.This report was produced at a period when the government was trying to regulate and control the consumption of alcohol in Britain, in a time of great reform. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, front wrap is detached but present, lacking the rear wrap. Front wrap is edge worn with chips and small tears. Backstrip is torn with some loss. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Fair.

Seller Inventory # 963P31

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Report By Her Majesty's Commissioners For Inquiring into the Licensing System, and Sale and Consumption of Excisable Liquors in Scotland, With Minutes of Evidence
• Publisher: Murray and Gibb, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1860
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: Fair
• Book Type: book