1957 The Marchants Avizo

Description

Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Facsimile reprint with an extensive introduction. Issued as number 11 of the Kres Library of Business and Economics. A reproduction of an influential sixteenth-century English advice manual for merchant apprentices. The work of an experienced Bristol merchant named John Browne, who seems to have been one of the first to realise the desirability of providing young men with a manual of information and advice when starting their commercial careers. With a detailed introduction exploring both the subject matter of the work and the little information we can find on the author himself. Edited by Professor Patrick McGrath, a British historian and professor at the University of Bristol.