Catalogue of Valuable & Rare Books and Important Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Including a Portion of the Library of H. Sidney, Esq. and Selections from Other Libraries, Comprising Three Splendid Illuminated Manuscripts of the XVth Century, the Property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Morley ...
Title | Catalogue of Valuable & Rare Books and Important Illuminated and Other Manuscripts, Including a Portion of the Library of H. Sidney, Esq. and Selections from Other Libraries, Comprising Three Splendid Illuminated Manuscripts of the XVth Century, the Property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Morley ... PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1898 |
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Title | Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | James Silk Buckingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 872 |
Release | 1898 |
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The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 860 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
“The” Athenaeum
Title | “The” Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 856 |
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ISBN |
The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | James Silk Buckingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 846 |
Release | 1884 |
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ISBN |
A Book for All Readers
Title | A Book for All Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Ainsworth Rand Spofford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
The Social Life of Coffee
Title | The Social Life of Coffee PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Cowan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300133502 |
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.