Ashton (John)

(20 cm), xix (1), 474 pp., frontispiece (folding facsimile of The Daily Courant, 11 March 1702), illustrations. Publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth. - “A veritable cornucopia of information” extracted from newspapers and other contemporary sources, presenting lists of the London coffee-houses of the period (1702-1714), of the persons to whom rings of mourning were presented upon the “occasion of Mr Pepys’s Death and Burial”, etc. “A new impression” (verso of title-page; original edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1883). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.