In addition to “Illustrated London and its Representatives Of Commerce,” The London Printing & Engraving Co. Feel free to download and use the text and images. Because it’s an important historical resource I have put it online. My copy cost only a few pounds at a car boot fair as a “tatty old book,” but better quality copies can cost around £100. Copies would have been distributed to each subscriber to circulate amongst their customers. Many descriptions are accompanied by engravings, occasionally photographs, of the premises (possibly from the business’s catalogue) and describe the business as supplying to the higher social classes. The main section is a directory of several hundred shops and businesses that subscribed to the directory and presumably supplied their own descriptions (a mix of history and advertising). The first section is an illustrated description of London. Illustrated London and its Representatives of Commerce was was an unsuccessful and therefore rare 252-page directory that was intended to be an annual work. ILLUSTRATED LONDON AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMERCE.Ī note about this book. ILLUSTRATED LONDON AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMERCE (1893)
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