Clone of Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… to make sense of the relation between space, bookshops and urban sociability. As James Raven has pointed out, the community of London booksellers and printers managed to adapt themselves to the considerable expansion of the metropolis … the eighteenth century the economic power of coffeehouse audiences remained strongly influential on the output of their community’. 4 In the City, booksellers were running their activities from nearby coffeeshops and taverns, where they … of a single London bookseller. 12 9 . Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts (eds.), Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650–1850 (Leiden, 2018). 10 . See Julian Pooley and his Nichols Database …
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