TY - GEN AU - Markman Ellis AU - Richard Coulton AU - Ben Dew AU - Matthew Mauger TI - Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4 SN - 9781040247068 PY - 2024///0801 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833 ER -