"Hints for Smokers": Advertising Booklet for South American Corrocco Tablets
Hartford, Connecticut: E.G. Lewis & Co., 1890. An illustrated 1890 advertising booklet for South American Corrocco Tablets, a product that purports to counteract bad breath from smoking and the effects of nicotine: "Do not swear off smoking, when you can smoke to your heart's content. Dissolve a 'Corrocco' tablet on the tongue and instantly be rid of all the unpleasant after effects, such as headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, parched mouth, and the rank after taste and smell" (p. [11]). Illustrated with what the reader is presumably supposed to read as ancient Mayan glyphs, the brand trades off an exoticised view of South American indigenous people's cultural ties to tobacco. Contains a lengthy description of the origins and manufacture of tobacco, the Meerschaum Pipe, and a letter testimonial from a doctor advocating for Corrocco Tablets.
Oblong 12mo (3.25" by 5.5"), pp. [12] with in-text illustrations, stapled in original chromolithographed wrappers. Fine. Lightly toned.
Price: $100.00
Item #21000439