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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Total Pages | : 1708 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Catalogue of Periodicals Contained in the Bodleian Library: English periodicals
Author | : Bodleian Library |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Catalogue of Periodicals Contained in the Bodleian Library
Author | : Bodleian Library |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Catalogue. Supplement
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : English literature |
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The Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade Journal. Vo. 1-8
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230154978 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...Miscellaneous Goods.--I notice in one of the chatty and deeplyinteresting letters from the correspondent at Belfast that a draper in that town has added a large supply of pictures to his stock. Whither are we drifting? Scent and soap are common enough to all drapers; ornaments of china, glasses, decanters, and other articles of the same description, mixed with imitation bronzes and tin ware, are constantly to be met with; portmanteaus, travelling bags, portmonnaies, and writing cases are frequently used as articles of introduction; and I can particularize one firm in a busy London thoroughfare where a perennial show of clocks at is. Ii Jd. each may be seen. But again I ask, where will it end? We trench on one side of the groundwork of the stationers' trade by selling valentines and paperlerie; we go far beyond our own limits and invade the jewe!ry and fancy wares people by selling Brummagem goods and imitation jet; we unblushingly "cut" the neighbouring shoemaker; and yet on deliberate investigation we can but acknowledge that our own trade is least interfered with of any by outsiders. Tradition gives it that Jones of Bristol--familiarly known as "old Tommy"--once bought a drove of ponies, had a window cleared out, and a porter holding a specimen therein all through the day, and furthermore--he sold them! He would buy cigars, too, and dispose of them by his vigorous and judicious system of business, and would purchase anything that came in his way; but altogether I should think he would be a most undesirable neighbour. With horsedealing, I should think the limit of our annexations had been reached, although, if we go on improving, it may be no uncommon thing for an assistant to be asked for a pound of blue paint, ...
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : English literature |
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