while i was going to document all my nearly little zines, i realized that i could not take lovely pictures because i do not have access to a camera currently for reasons i would rather not discuss.  

so. i'm going to tell you that it is 16 pages with things like words and 2 blank pages with nothing at all on them. the content found itself being about different tonics, bitters, sarsaparillas, cures, remedies and poisons and the different kind of bottles and vials they found themselves in during the 1800s and maybe a bit before and after. 

the front of this zine says "record" because that is its title. everything is in black and white. there are a few typos or, mistakes. my bad. but other then those mistakes i would like to think that it has turned out very well. 

i went to kinkos to copy it. in a store and on a machine like this: or that picture up there. i found that picture on the internet. 

i apologize for not being able to have pictures and i'm trying to document it the best to my ability.

hey! look. i'll give you an excerpt. 

"“Bitters” and “tonics”, as they were called in the 1800s, found themselves in bottles much like the intracate bottle blown from glass placed above. “Bitters” found their name from the bitter herbs that were encouraged inside liquors, usually gin, and are known today to only have been made to shy away from the steep taxes on alchol. Some herbs used included in the liquors were wormwood and orange peel and quassia, to be breif. The mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said of bitters, “Where weakness proceeds from excess of irritability, there bitters act beneficially; because all bitters are poisons, and operate by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.” This is from Mr. Coleridge’s Specimens of Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tonics, on another hand quite near, are in present day refering to liquid drugs used to treat things, as they were in the 1800s. However similar they may be in the 1800s they were placed in pretty bottles and much like bitters, as they are in the same category, were mostly made of a base of alcohol and some herbs. The late Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of tonics similarly as he did of bitters, though and as there was a difference. “But where weakness proceeds from the opposite cause of relaxation, there tonics are good; because they brace up and tighten the loosened string. Bracing is a correct metaphor.”

fashionable bitters and tonics found in the pursueing little bottles that are pretty will be listed now."

well, as soon as i have pictures i will be sure to post them. and until then, feel free to contact me about purchasing one. you can chose the price. i guess.

kellynjune@gmail.com

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