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s D. Smith, ed. "An Exact and Industrious Tradesman": The alphabetic character Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711-1720 (Records of Social and Economic History, recently made known Series 34.) New York: Oxford University Pres for The British Academy. 2002 Pp cxxxii, 794 $9500 ISBN 0-19-726258-9

The literal meaning book of Joseph Symson is the kind of source that makes the economic and social history of the eighteenth hundred years at once rewarding and frustrating. Rewarding because like material, much rarer in earlier periods, provides fascinating and detailed insight into the commercial,

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