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E. R. Billings
Best known for a sweeping 19th-century study of tobacco, this writer gathered history, cultivation, manufacture, trade, and social customs into one unusually wide-ranging volume. The result is a vivid window into how one crop shaped everyday life and commerce.
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Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
by E. R. Billings
About the author
Little biographical information about E. R. Billings could be confirmed from reliable sources consulted here. What is clear is that Billings is known for Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, a substantial 19th-century work that has been preserved by major public-domain and library archives.
The book explores tobacco from many angles, including its history, cultivation, manufacture, commercial importance, and methods of use. Its continued presence in collections such as Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the Wellcome Collection suggests it has remained a useful reference for readers interested in agricultural history, trade, and social customs.
Because dependable personal details were scarce, it is safest to remember Billings through the work itself: an ambitious survey that tried to explain not just a plant, but the larger world built around it.