Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture

'[The] masterful selection and arrangement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources colorfully illustrate the rich legacy of the institution.' Huntington Library Quarterly 'It is wonderful to read these texts at first hand, in the earthy language of the day' Times Literary Supplement 'Ellis has done a magnificent job of collecting, ordering, introducing and annotating these four volumes; it is one of the few such collections now emerging from presses with the rapidity of openings of neighborhood Starbucks of which one can say with full conviction: this is worth the price.' The Scriblerian