The Shopkeeper's and tradesman's assistant [electronic resource] : Being a new and correct alphabetical list of all the stage coaches, carriers, coasting vessels, &c. containing an account of the inns in London where the coaches and carriers put up and go out from; the days of the week, and hours of those days, when they set out; the counties in which the places lie, and their distance in miles from London; with the wharfs, keys and stairs, where the vessels, barges and boats usually lie to take in goods and passengers, with the charges of general post letters, Inland and Foreign. Likewise a collection of the most common shilling and eighteen penny fares for hackney coaches, and the rates off watermen. Also the rates paid to carmen for the cartage of goods, together with their orders and ordinances, as settled by the Lord Mayor, &c. at a general quarter sessions of the peace, holden for the city of London, at the Guildball. To which is prefixed a correct list of all the mail coaches. The charges of landing, loading, housing and weighing merchandize; with the names of all the carriers, the inns they put up at, and the principal places they goto. The whole being well digested, is designed as a proper assistant for shopkeepers, tradesmen and others, who have occasion to write, or send goods into the country.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Guide-books--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137,[1]28p. )

Other Title:

Shopkeeper's and tradesman's assistant

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by Richard & Henry Causton, at the printing office, No. 21, in Finch-lane, near the Royal-Exchange; and by the booksellers and pamphlet shops of London and Westminster, 1798.

Notes:

The 28pp. section with separate pagination and register is the 'Rates of postage of the General and Penny Post Offices'.

Turned chain lines.

Price on title page: Price 1s. 6d. sewed, or 2s. bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T223715.

OCLC:

510684915