Coffee Houses of Old London, 39 pages, history first published in 1922, first coffee house identified, copy of 1652 advertising of coffee as a sustaining drink, 1657 first advertisement in a newspaper, coffee clubs, prices, licenses, signs of coffee houses (like public house signs), poem about coffee in a 1667 broadside, copy of broadside complaining about coffee, coffee houses called “penny universities” since they were great schools of conversation and the entrance fee was a penny.
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