UKERS, William Harrison.

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All About Tea. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title of Volume I, "William H. Ukers, New York, Jan. 31. 1940". This encyclopaedic treatment of tea's history and consumption contains 1,700 illustrations and 54 chapters, and it remains the authoritative work on the subject.Ukers (1873-1945) founded the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal in 1901 and spent almost all of his professional life researching tea's history. He also wrote a history of coffee, for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1923 Brazilian Centennial Exposition.The publisher's folding advertisement is loosely inserted in Volume I.

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