The complete English tradesman: directing him in the several parts and progressions of trade. In two volumes. ... In Familiar Letters, Treating of the several Points necessary to be known by the Younger Tradesman, as well in his Apprenticeship, as on his first Entring upon Business; with regard to Diligence, Over-Trading, Expensive Living, Too-Early Marrying, Diversions, Credit, Partnerships, Compounding, Trading-Frauds, Punctuality, and many other material Subjects. With a Supplement; containing farther Useful Instructions to a Tradesman, and brief and plain Specimens of Book-Keeping, &c. ... In Two Parts: Containing, I. Needful Instructions to the More-Experienc'd Tradesman; with regard to Projects, Engrossing, Underselling, Combinations, Leaving off Business, Litigiousness, &c. II. Useful Generals in Trade, describing the Principles and Foundations of the Home-Trade of Great Britain, with large Tables of the British Manufactures, Product, Shipping, Land-Carriage, Importation, Home-Consumption, &c. The whole calculated for the use of all our inland tradesmen, as well in the city as in the country.

  • Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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M.DCC.XXXII. [1727]-32
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London : printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.XXXII. [1727]-32.

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2v. ; 80.

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The third edition.

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ESTC T71963
Moore, 475

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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