Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… used by consumers. Objects > Print culture Keywords Collecting Elite Merchants Politeness Rank From the Restoration onwards, there was a close relationship between urban growth, sociability and the circulation of pocket directories. … 1660-1720 (Oxford, 2003), p. 28. Their publishers, mostly indexers, journalists such as Francis Nichols, John Almon or Edward Kimber, were collecting up-to-date data from almanacs, gazettes and letters sent by customers. 2 One key element … Society of Antiquaries , Spalding Society ) and gazettes ( Gentleman’s Magazine , La Belle Assemblée ). John Constable warned against the scourge of several categories of bores, notably the pedant who ‘takes you into a long pedigree of some …
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