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Book of Trades: A Collection of the Nineteenth-Century Handbooks, 6-vol. set book cover

1st Edition

Book of Trades: A Collection of the Nineteenth-Century Handbooks, 6-vol. set

Edited By Akio Kobayashi
2700 Pages
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With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, various modern trades were born and the need to employ young workers expanded. To improve comprehension of many of the new trades and practices required by the emerging industries, various guidebooks and handbooks aimed at a young readership started to appear in the early nineteenth century, and this is a reprint collection of eight books published in... Read more

Volume 1

T. Mercator, A guide to trade; or, A new exercise book, for the use of schools; intended to enable young persons to compute bills expeditiously, and to give them a general knowledge of the most common affairs of trade, 2nd edn., enlarged and improved (London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne; and W. Rusher, Banbury, 1811.), c. 100pp.

The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, A New Edition Enlarged, with 500 Questions for the Exercise of Students (London: Richard Phillips & Co., 1824), c. 480pp.

Volume 2

The Book of Trades or Circle of the Useful Arts (Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co., 1835), c. 370pp.

Volume 3

The Handbook of Trade and Commerce or, A Concise Dictionary of the Terms and Principles of Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial and Common Law, etc., with Tables of Money, Weights, and Measures, new edition (London: Darton and Clark, 1842), c. 330pp.

Volume 4

The Dictionary of Trade, Commerce, and Navigation: Explanatory of The Objects, Terms, Statistics, Laws and Regulations of the Excise, Customs, Public Affairs, Banking, Monies, Weights, Shipping, Fisheries, Imports, Exports, Book-Keeping, Commercial Geography, National Flags, and the General Affairs of Business Corrected up to the Latest Period (London: Brittain & Paternoster, 1844), c. 390pp.

Volume 5

Peter Paley, The Book of Trades, Arts, & Professions, relative to Food, Clothing, Shelter, Travelling and Ornament for the Use of the Young (London: Darton and Co., 1855), c. 125pp.

The Boy’s Book of Trades and the Tools Used in Them (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866), c. 320pp.

Volume 6

James Wylede, The Book of Trades: A Circle of the Arts and Manufactures, Adapted for Schools, Colleges and Families, new edition (London & Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1878), c. 414pp.

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Akio Kobayashi

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