Blackburn Press
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — February 2008
The bottle book; a comprehensive guide to historic, embossed medicine bottles. (reprint, 1987)
Fike, Richard E.
The Blackburn Press, ©2007 303 p. $44.95 NK1125
978-1-932846-15-7
Designed for the cultural historian, the bottle collector, and those interested in pharmacopeia, this book is a guide to the identification and evaluation of embossed, patent, and proprietary medicine bottles produced in an era of American history when anything could legally be bottled and sold. A discussion of the patent and proprietary medicine years is followed by descriptions of bottles by color, design, and shape. B&w line drawings and photos are included. The author, a retired archaeologist, is the developer of the Museum of the Mountain West in Colorado. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
