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READE, A. Arthur, editor. Study and Stimulants; or, The Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life. Manchester and London: Abel Heywood and Son; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1883.
8vo. Half-title; 20 pp. ads at end. (Occasional light spotting). Modern morocco-backed marbled boards. Provenance: James Strohn Copley (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Includes letters and testimony by Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), W.D. Howells, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, and many others, some appearing for the first time in book form.