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Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.

A French tavern with men at a table in the open air drinking a toast to good health. Lithograph by F. Noël after L. Boilly, 1826.

A gathering at the ceremonial drinking of kava and obeisance to the king in Tongatapu, Tonga. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.

Six fashionable young men carousing round a table as a serving man opens another bottle of ale. Engraving, c. 1796.

A gathering at the ceremonial drinking of kava in the Friendly Islands. Lithograph by A. Noël after L.A. de Sainson.

Captain Morris's drinking song illustrated by five men at a table drinking. Engraving and etching, 1806.

Cups and their customs.

Drink : a cultural history of alcohol / Iain Gately.

Nineteen centuries of drink in England : a history / by Richard Valpy French.

The philosophy of artificial and compulsory drinking usage in Great Britain and Ireland: containing the characteristic, and exclusively national, convivial laws of British society; with the peculiar compulsory festal customs of ninety-eight trades and occupations in the three kingdoms ... / By John Dunlop.

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Cups and their customs.

Drink : a cultural history of alcohol / Iain Gately.

Nineteen centuries of drink in England : a history / by Richard Valpy French.

Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.