ABSTRACT
An essay on the coffee-houses of London, and the characteristics of their clientele in imitation of The Spectator. Theobald detects important differences between different kinds of coffee-houses and their clientele. He begins with the coffee-houses of the finer sort, where perfumed men of fashion gather in splendid gilt and mirrored interiors, before moving on to a more humble kind of coffee-house, where mechanic tradesmen and artisans are the more usual assembly.
