Download or read book Inns and Taverns of Old London written by Henry C. Shelley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Englishman of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially of the latter, is seen to have exercised considerable zeal in creating substitutes for his home, namely by establishing a vast number of taverns, inns, clubs, gardens and coffee houses. Those which already have existed in "Old London" are described in this volume. Originally published in 1909.