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• Bing xue yin yuan : she hui xiao shuo (Shang wu yin shu guan, 1915), by Charles Dickens, Yi Wei, and Shu Lin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bing xue yin yuan : she hui xiao shuo (Shang wu yin shu guan, 1915), by Charles Dickens, Yi Wei, and Shu Lin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The market-place [a novel] (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899), by Harold Frederic, Harrison Fisher, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The way we live now : a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1875), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The knavish merchant (now turn'd warehouseman) characterized: or A severe scourge, for an unjust, cruel, and unconsionable adversary / By Philadelphus Verax a cordial friend to his honest (though injuriously oppressed) aquaintance Thomas Crocker merchant. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the second month of the next year that tyrants ceas't do domineer. [1661]), by Philadelphus Verax (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1998), by Barrington Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell)

• Illustrated London and its representatives of commerce [progress, commerce. (London, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)

• City characters under several reigns (E. Wilson, 1922), by T. H. S. Escott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Banks and bankers (Whittaker & Co., 1843), by Richard Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of London bankers: with some account of their predecessors, the early goldsmiths. Together with lists of bankers, from the earliest one printed in 1677 to that of the London post-office directory of 1876. (Chatto & Windus, 1876), by F. G. Hilton Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• A handbook of London bankers (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and co.;, 1890), by F. G. Hilton Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mystery of the new fashioned goldsmiths or bankers their rise, growth, state, and decay, discovered in a merchant's letter to a country gent., who desired to bind his son apprentice to a goldsmith. ([London : s.n.], 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Is not the hand of Joab in all this? Or an enquiry into the grounds of a late pamphlet intituled, the mystery of the new-fashioned-goldsmiths, or bankers, &c. and answering the exceptions in it to the bankers trade. ([London? : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Famous London merchants. (J. Hogg & son, 1869), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some transactions of a Halifax family (W. Blackwood, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910, by William Bower Forwood (Gutenberg ebook)

• A short account of the late application to Parliament made by the merchants of London upon the neglect of their trade : with the substance of the evidence thereupon (Printed for T. Cooper, 1742), by Richard Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated London and its representatives of commerce [progress, commerce. (London, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous London merchants : a book for boys (Harper & Brother, 1869), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Broken merchants complaint, represented in a dialogue between a scrivener and a banker on the Royal-Exchange of London ([S.l.] : Printed by N.T. ..., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A warning to all the merchants in London, and such as buy and sell with an advisement to them to lay aside their superfluity, and with it to nouirish the poor / by G.F. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., 1658), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Lowndes's London directory (T. Lowndes, in the 18th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kent's directory (Printed and sold by Richard and Henry Causton, in the 18th century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Barnwell : a tragedy : in five acts (J. Cumberland, 1800), by George Lillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• To the right honourable the lords; knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in both Houses of Parliament. The humble petition of Richard Chambers merchant and alderman of the City of London. ([London : s.n., 1646]), by Richard Chambers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Several complaints of merchants and traders of London and other ports of this kingdom against the commissioners and officers of the customs. ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A remonstrance of some fallacies and mistakes, whereof the informers who have hitherto attempted against the House of the Stillyard, suppressing the truth, and by false suggestions deceiving at one those who do not heed, and those who are ignorant of the matter, or at least those who are too credulous, have made use of With particular answers to all, and a conclusion and petition on every point. (London : printed by Tho. Newcomb, 1659), by Martin Boekell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Collection of the names of the merchants living in and about the city of London ... (London : Printed for Sam. Lee, and are to be sold at his shop ... and Dan. Major ..., 1677), by Samuel Lee (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African, in two volumes : to which are prefixed, memoirs of his life. (London : Printed by J. Nichols, and sold by J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, J. Robson, in New Bond Street, J. Walter, Charing-Cross, R. Baldwin, Paternoster-Row, and J. Sewell, Cornhill, MDCCLXXXII [1782], 1782), by Ignatius Sancho, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Jekyll, John Nichols, John Sewell, Robert Baldwin, John Walter, James Robson, and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, by Ignatius Sancho, contrib. by Joseph Jekyll (Gutenberg ebook)

• Genealogy of the Chetham family (Printed for the Chetham society, 1903), by F. R. Raines, Ernest Axon, and Charles William Sutton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Will Warburton; a romance of real life (E.P. Dutton, 1905), by George Gissing (page images at HathiTrust)

• A remonstrance of some fallacies and mistakes : whereof the informers who have hitherto attempted against the house of the Stillyard [i.e. Steelyard], suppressing the truth and by false suggestions deceiving at once those who do not heed ... : with particular answers to all, and a conclusion and petition on every point. (Printed by Tho. Newcomb, 1659), by Martin Boekell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sea-cabbin dialogue, between two travellers lately come from Holland Translated out of Dutch; and dedicated to all those who desire to understand things rightly. (London : printed by T.M., 1652) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Celebrated stories (Printed by J.G. Rusher., 1840), by John Golby Rusher and Aldrich Collection (Brown University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Celebrated stories (Printed by J.G. Rusher., 1840), by John Golby Rusher and Aldrich Collection (Brown University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The acts and ordinances of the Eastland company; edited for the Royal historical society, from the original muniments of the Gild of merchant adventurers of York (Royal historical society, 1906), by Eastland Company and Maud Sellers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• The Daffodil Mystery (first published ca. 1920), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson (Smith, Elder & Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dombey and Son (T.B. Peterson, 1855), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickens' works illustrated (Ticknor and Fields, 1867), by Charles Dickens and Solomon Eytinge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dombey and son. (Estes and Lauriat, 1880), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The business of life (A. L. Burt, 1913), by Robert W. Chambers and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dombey and son (Macmillan and Co., 1892), by Charles Dickens and Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Object: matrimony, by Montague Glass (Gutenberg ebook)
• Makers, by Cory Doctorow (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1910), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford: A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1908), by George Randolph Chester (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• John Rawn, Prominent Citizen (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by Emerson Hough, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lion and the Mouse: A Story of an American Life Novelized from the Play by Arthur Hornblow, by Charles Klein, contrib. by Arthur Hornblow (Gutenberg text)
• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford and Blackie Daw (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallingford in His Prime (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Wallingford (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1912), by George Randolph Chester, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger and Henry Raleigh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babbitt (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Sinclair Lewis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
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• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1870), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babbitt (Harcourt, Brace, 1922), by Sinclair Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise of Ruderick Clowd (Dodd, Mead, 1903), by Josiah Flynt, Amy Richards, Burr Printing House, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gilded age; a tale of today (Harper, 1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise of Silas Lapham (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Get rick quick Wallingford. (Henry Altemus Company, 1908), by George Randolph Chester, G. C. Widney, Henry Raleigh, J. C. Leyendecker, Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, and Henry Altemus Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eugene Aram, a tale (G. Routledge, 1887), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early bird : a business man's love story (A.L. Burt Co., 1910), by George Randolph Chester and Arthur William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rousing of Parkside (Duffield & Company, 1914), by William Ganson Rose, Plimpton Press, and Duffield & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gilded age : a tale of to-day (American Publishing Co., 1873), by Mark Twain, True Williams, Alice Barber Stephens, Augustus Hoppin, Charles Dudley Warner, and American Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vow : a novel, by Paul Trent, illust. by John Rae (Gutenberg ebook)
• Atomic bonanza, by George O. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Flight 18, by Paul A. Torak (Gutenberg ebook)
• The giftie gien, by Malcolm Jameson, illust. by Frank Kramer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Babbitt: Tarina amerikkalaisesta miehestä, hänen perheestään ja ainoasta ystävyydestään (in Finnish), by Sinclair Lewis, trans. by Eino Voionmaa (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Garden of the Gods, by William MacLeod Raine, illust. by F. De Forest Schook (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hagerty's Enzymes, by A. L. Haley, illust. by Joseph Eberle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ball of Fire, by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by M. Leone Bracker, Will Foster, and George Gibbs (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Timber Pirate, by Charles Christopher Jenkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Planet for Your Thoughts, by James Norman, illust. by Leo Morey (Gutenberg ebook)
• When Day is Done, by Arnold Castle (Gutenberg ebook)
• John Rawn, Prominent Citizen, by Emerson Hough, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Speculations of John Steele, by Robert Barr, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Roland Whately: A Novel, by Alec Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night, by Algis Budrys, illust. by Dick Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Drug, by C. C. MacApp, illust. by Martinez (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lex, by W. T. Haggert, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Man of Distinction, by Michael Shaara, illust. by Dick Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lonely Unicorn: A Novel, by Alec Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Confidence Game, by James McKimmey (Gutenberg ebook)

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