Author: Patent remedies.
Title: A gathering of 19th century handbills or descriptive and instructive leaflets or wrappers for various patent, herbal or quack medicines.
Description: v.p. c1880 to c1900? 26 individual pieces bound to fold into a handmade board and stiff paper wallet style string tied binding, 28x18cm, treated with persimmon, hand lettered title piece. Some are quite large, some are printed on both sides and a few are woodcut. ¶ The work of the sort of collector who deserves a small shrine. Here have been carefully preserved the most disposable, awkwardly shaped and ephemeral records of a recondite corner in modern history: when drugs and cures became an industry. At least one of these brands is still available: Chujoto for "Female Complaints" still alleviates menstrual pain. There may be others and I'll bet many are the foundations of current industrial giants. The only date I've spotted is Meiji 13 - 1880; Chujoto was apparently invented in 1893 (or by princess Chujo of the Fujiwara clan in a Snow White like tale) and some may be a little earlier or later.
Keywords: science quack patent medicine drugs manufactures herbs Japan c19th modernism social history advertising graphic art
Title: A gathering of 19th century handbills or descriptive and instructive leaflets or wrappers for various patent, herbal or quack medicines.
Description: v.p. c1880 to c1900? 26 individual pieces bound to fold into a handmade board and stiff paper wallet style string tied binding, 28x18cm, treated with persimmon, hand lettered title piece. Some are quite large, some are printed on both sides and a few are woodcut. ¶ The work of the sort of collector who deserves a small shrine. Here have been carefully preserved the most disposable, awkwardly shaped and ephemeral records of a recondite corner in modern history: when drugs and cures became an industry. At least one of these brands is still available: Chujoto for "Female Complaints" still alleviates menstrual pain. There may be others and I'll bet many are the foundations of current industrial giants. The only date I've spotted is Meiji 13 - 1880; Chujoto was apparently invented in 1893 (or by princess Chujo of the Fujiwara clan in a Snow White like tale) and some may be a little earlier or later.
Keywords: science quack patent medicine drugs manufactures herbs Japan c19th modernism social history advertising graphic art
Price: AUD 1500.00 = appr. US$ 1037.81 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 10751
- Book number: 10751