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Trade Cards
Date: 18th century-19th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Col/108Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Ephemera
Mistress Stern : sub/dom service , PVC leather : worship my boots, called into submission : watersports punishment, slaves, tools of the trade.
Date: [1993]- Ephemera
Mistress Stern : sub/dom service , PVC leather : worship my boots, called into submission : watersports punishment, slaves, tools of the trade.
Date: [1993]- Books
Scientific trade cards in the Science Museum collection / by H.R. Calvert.
Science Museum (Great Britain)Date: 1971- Books
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The new London letter writer, Containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity, on the following subjects, viz. Trade, affection, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, gratitude, history, commerce, industry, prosperity, prudence, instruction, generosity, misfortunes, consolation, prodigality, virtue, vice, piety, with, mirth, folly, pleasure, humanity, morality, education, happiness, business, sickness, death, integrity, œconomy, affluence, politeness, fidelity, riches, duty and concerns of parents, children, and other relations, masters, mistresses, officers, soldiers, seamen, &c. To which are added models for cards, or notes of compliments, also, a collection of petitions, adapted to every situation, likewise necessary rules for addressing persons of all stations, and precedents of bonds, letters of attorney, wills, &c. &c. By Samuel Johnson, M.A.
Johnson, Samuel, active 1758.Date: [1790?]