A complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent: containing, I. The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Lanes, &c. in the said City, and within the Bill of Mortality. II. The Names and Situation of the Churches, Chapels, Meeting-Houses, Companies Halls, &c. within the said Bill of Mortality. III. An Account of all the Stage-Coaches, Carriers, &c. where they Inn, and when they Go out. IV. The Names and Places of Abode of the most Eminent Merchants and Traders in and about London. V. The Rates of Watermen, Hackney-Coachmen Chairmen, Carmen, and Porters; of the General Post, and Penny-Post Offices, where kept, and to what Places they send Letters and Parcels. VI. Useful Tables, which shew the Value of any Quantity of Goods, from One Farthing to Twenty-Seven Shillings. Vii. Tables of Interest, from One Day to Twelve Months, and from 1 l. to 1000l. at Three, Three and half, Four, and Five per Cent. Being The Exactest Piece of the Kind hitherto published; and Designed for the Use of Persons of All Degrees, as well Natives as Foreigners
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Type of record: Book
Title: A complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent: containing, I. The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Lanes, &c. in the said City, and within the Bill of Mortality. II. The Names and Situation of the Churches, Chapels, Meeting-Houses, Companies Halls, &c. within the said Bill of Mortality. III. An Account of all the Stage-Coaches, Carriers, &c. where they Inn, and when they Go out. IV. The Names and Places of Abode of the most Eminent Merchants and Traders in and about London. V. The Rates of Watermen, Hackney-Coachmen Chairmen, Carmen, and Porters; of the General Post, and Penny-Post Offices, where kept, and to what Places they send Letters and Parcels. VI. Useful Tables, which shew the Value of any Quantity of Goods, from One Farthing to Twenty-Seven Shillings. Vii. Tables of Interest, from One Day to Twelve Months, and from 1 l. to 1000l. at Three, Three and half, Four, and Five per Cent. Being The Exactest Piece of the Kind hitherto published; and Designed for the Use of Persons of All Degrees, as well Natives as Foreigners
Other titles: Compleat guide to all persons
Classmark: Bedford Collection G001
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Shaw-Stewart, Sir Michael Robert (1826-1903) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for T. & T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, and R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster Row; J. Hodges, near London-Bridge; and J. & J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],178,[24]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731568
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019939997605181
Description
Indexed in: Alston,
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G001: contemporary calf, blind tooled, spine slightly worn.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G001: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TD/104. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Sir Michael R Shaw Stewart P. 3. 14 [shelfmark in ink]: [i.e. Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart (1826-1903), 7th Baronet, MP for Renfrewshire]. Eighteenth-century[?] MS. inscription on title page: Ex Libris Mich: Stewart.
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