Download or read book Club Life of London (Vol. 1&2) written by John Timbs and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Club Life of London in two volumes is a work of social history that presents the pictures of the social life of England's Capital, with anecdotes of the clubs, coffee-houses and taverns of the metropolis during the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. The goal of the work was to record the Club-life in a series of sketches of the leading Societies, presented through the portrayal of a wide variety clubs and taverns. The first volume deals with London Clubs, while the second volume is devoted to the Coffee-house and Tavern Life, and presents a diversity of sketches, anecdotes and reminiscences