| ISBN |
9780754660194 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Author |
Monteyne, Joseph |
| Title |
The printed image in early modern London : urban space, visual representation, and social exchange / by Joseph Monteyne |
| Publisher |
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007 |
| Physical desc. |
xv, 286 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
CBL illustrations: p. 48 (T 439, f. 9) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-281) and index |
| Contents |
Introduction: thresholds of exchange. -- "A thousand monster opinions": producing the space of the coffee-house. -- Anatomizing the social body: visualizing the plague. -- The "picture of Troy": mapping the trauma of London's fire in 1666. -- Representing the Solemn Mock Procession of the Pope: the liminal space of print and the city. -- The Frost Fair of 1683-1684: print culture and the city re-imagined. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439 |
| Prints, English -- England -- London -- 17th century |
| Prints -- Social aspects -- England -- London |
| City and town life in art |
| Prints, English -- 17th century |
| Visual communication -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century |
| Public spaces -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century |
| Street literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism |
| English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism |
| Coffeehouses -- History |
| Coffeehouses -- Social aspects |
| Coffeehouses -- England -- London -- History |
| London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century |
