Illustrations
Illustration 1

Here begynneth the boke named the assyse of breade, what it ought to weye after the pryce of a quarter of wheete. London : Robert Wyer, ca. 1540.
Facsimilie reprint, London : W.E. Ashbee, 1869.
Illustration 2

John Powell. The aassize of bread. Together with sundry good and needfull ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, victualers, vinters, and butchers. London : William Stansby, 1630.
Illustration 3

England, statutes. Anno XXXIX. Reginae Elizabethae. London : Christopher Barker, [ca. 1597]
Illustration 4

Arrest du conseil d'estat du roy, du 17 avril 1717. Paris : la veuve Saugrain, [1717].
Illustration 5

Ruth deForest Lamb. American chamber of horrors : the truth about food and drugs. New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
Illustration 6
August V. Kautz. Customs of service for non-commissioned officers and soldiers as ... practised in the Army of the United States. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1864.
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Illustration 7

Francis Sanford. History of the coronation of ... James II ... and ... Queen Mary. London : Thomas Newcomb, 1687. (Detail)
Illustration 8

Program and menu of the third year class dinner of the Harvard Law class of 1915.