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• Clothing trade -- Law and legislation -- England

• The Paycockes of Coggeshall. (Methuen, 1920), by Eileen Power (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acts & Orders. 1587-11-10 (Imprinted at London : By Hugh Singleton, printer for the cittie of London, [1587]), by City of London (England). Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the right hon: the Lords Spirituall and Temporall, of the higher House of Parliament. The humble petition of the drapers of the towne of Shrewsbury: ([London : s.n., 1621]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, the petition and case of the embroiderers: flourishers, raisers and stitchers of East-India silks, and other goods, and stainers thereof, together with those that employ them, and of many others; in relation to the bill, for prohibiting the wearing of East-India and Persia wrought silks, Bengals, &c. (London : [s.n.], Printed anno, 1696) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Clothiers reply to the Dutch interloper, and reasons for a Hamburgh Company ([London : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The honour of the cloathworking trade: Or, The pleasant and famous history of Thomas of Reading; and other worthy clothiers of the west and north of England. : Setting forth their merriments, great riches, hospitality to the poor, the favour they gained with their prince, and the privileges granted them. With the unfortunate loves of the Earl of Salisbury's fair daughter, and the renowned Duke of Normandy. The Woful death of Thomas of Reading, murthered by his host; and other matters. Also pleasant songs. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, without Newgate., [ca. 1680]), by Thomas Deloney and England) Clothworkers' Company (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Thomas of Reading. (J. F. Taylor, 1903), by Thomas Deloney, Lucian Swift Kirtland, and Charles Roberts Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To all the clothiers of England ([London : T. Harper?, 1662?]), by D. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Die Mercurii, 11 Octobr. 1643. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled for the upholding the government of the Fellovvship of Merchants Adventurers of England, to the better maintenance of the trade of cloathing, and woollen manufacture of the kingdome. ([London : s.n., 1643]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mr. Grimstone, his speech in Parliament: on VVednesday the 19th of Ianuary, vpon the preferring of the Essex petition, Anno Domino [sic], 1642. VVith a desire to set the countrey in readinesse of arms for defence against forreine enemies. VVherein is set forth the miserable decay of trading in cloth. For the removing of popish lords from Parliament; with the searching out of priests and Iesuites. Also for the speedy bringing the bishops to a triall. (London : Printed for John Hammond, 1642), by Harbottle Grimston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamations. 1590-03-13. ([Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, Anno 1600 [i.e. 1601]]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Elizabethae Reginae. A publication of an order lately granted by the Queenes Majestie, in favour of a great number of her loving subjectes, occupying the trade of clothing in the realme. (Imprinted at London : By C.B[arker], [1587]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the Master-Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Weekly Bills of Mortality. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, in relation to the great abuses committed by their journeymen. ([London : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons, why the wagoners ought not to be obliged to any certain weight. ([London : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons shewing that the desires of the cloathiers, and vvoollen manufacturers of England expressed long since in their petition presented to the Parliament (against ingrossing and transporting of wooll and fullers-earth, and that none might use it, but those that make it into manufactures) will not be prejudiciall to the grower; but greatly beneficiall to the generall trade of the whole nation. ([London? : s.n., 1648]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation for the reuocation and repeale of certaine letters patents, and of part of a proclamation lately published for the keeping of a constant reele in cloathmaking, and for the increase of the poores wages labouring therein. (Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1636), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• E. B. M. Commune Concilium tentum in Camera Guildhald, Ciuit. London, tertio die Octobris, anno regni Domini nostri Iacobi, Dei gratia, Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, regis fidei defensoris, &c. vicesimo, & Scotiæ quinquagesimo sexto. ... Whereas Blackwell-Hall anciently hath beene, and is a common market place, principally instituted and ordained for clothiers, ... (London : Printed by VVilliam Iaggard, printer to the Honourable Citie of London, [1622]), by City of London (England). Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement. You may have good drugget and sagathie suits, made well and fashionable, for the first size men, at 3 guineas a suit, & the larger size at 3 pound ten and good cloath suits for 4 pound, and 4 pound ten, by Edward Hewetson, ... ([London : s.n., 1700?]), by Edward Hewetson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the most honorable assembly of the commons house of Parliament, the humble petition of the felt makers in and neare London ([London : W. Stansby, 1621?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The humble petition of the clothiers of Your Majesties County of Gloucester. (Oxford : [by H. Hall], printed in the yeare 1643), by Baynham Throckmorton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The humble petition of the clothiers of Your Majesties County of Gloucester. (Oxford : [by H. Hall], printed in the yeare 1643), by Baynham Throckmorton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The clothiers case truly stated, with an answer to the reasons against the bill for the encouragement of the woollen-manufacture, humbly offered to the Parliament. ([London : s.n., 1693]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the Kersey-clothiers inhabiting within the parishes of Hallifax, Bradford, Bingley, Kighley, and other adjacent towns and parishes within the west-riding of the county of York, against the aulnagers: Humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the clothiers and fullers of the counties of Glocester, Devon, Oxford, Worcester, York, Dorset and Wiltshire ([London : s.n., 1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Recollections of Mrs. Hester Taffetas : court milliner and modiste during the reign of King George the Third and his consort Queen Charlotte (Knight, 1858), by Hester Taffetas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London : with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members (Harrison, 1888), by Charles M. Clode (page images at HathiTrust)

• The antiquity and honours of the skinner and furrier crafts arms, skinners, ermine on a chief gu. 3 imperial crowns, or furriers, parted per fess. gu. and ar. a pale countercharged of the same on the 1st, 3 goats of the 2d / by P.D. ([S.l. : s.n., 1690?]), by P. D. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• History of the Leicester Co-operative Hosiery Manufacturing Society Ltd. (Co-operative Printing Society, 1898), by Thomas Blandford and George Newell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The gilds and companies of London (Methuen & Co., 1908), by George Unwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Royal Commission, the London City Livery Companies' vindication. (Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report and appendix. (Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1884), by Great Britain. Commission Appointed to Inquire into the Livery Companies of the City of London (page images at HathiTrust)
• City of London Livery Companies' Commission. Report and Appendix. (London, 1884), by Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Livery Companies of the City of London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city companies. ([L, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of the twelve great livery companies of London : principally collected from their grants and records : with notes and illustrations, an historical introduction, and copious accounts of each company, and of their estates and charities : with attested copies and translations of all the companies' charters, from their foundation to the present time (Published by the author, 1834), by William Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The livery companies of the city of London: their origin, character, development, and social and political importance. (S. Sonnenschein & co.;, 1892), by William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reform of London government and of city guilds. (S. Sonnenschein & co., 1885), by J. F. B. Firth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical reminiscences of the city of London and its livery companies. (R. Bentley, 1869), by Thomas Arundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city companies. ([L, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)

• List of the wardens of the Grocers' Company from 1345 to 1907, taken from the ordinances, remembrances and wardens' accounts, 1345-1463 (described as "the Black book with the lock.") The quires of wardens' accounts, 1454-1750, the register of freemen and apprentices, 1447-1504. The minute books of the company, 1556-1907. ([Metcalfe & Cooper, Printers], 1907), by England) Grocers' Company (London, William Wilson Grantham, and William Wilson Grantham (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Pewterers' Company (Blades, East & Blades, 1902), by Charles Welch (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Competitive Status of the U.S. Fibers, Textiles, and Apparel Complex, by National Research Council Committee on Technology and International Economic and Trade Issues (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Demographic characteristics of nonsupervisory employees in the work clothing industry : an economic effects study submitted to Congress 1975 (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration., 1975), by United States. Employment Standards Administration, Walter Malakoff, and Arthur Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new unionism in the clothing industry (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by J. M. Budish and George Henry Soule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Job descriptions for the garment manufacturing industry. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1941), by United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and order in industry, five years' experience. (MacMillan, 1916), by Julius Henry Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptions of occupations. Textiles and clothing. (Govt. Print. Off., 1918), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Success on a shoestring; 53 smaller fashion shops and how they grew (Fairchild Publications, 1953), by Jane Cahill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clothing trades industry (Sir I. Pitman & sons, 1920), by B. W. Poole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cost finding in the cloak and suit industry. (A.J. Watt, printer], 1912), by Philip Frankel and suit and skirt manufactures' association National cloak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Budgetary control for the cloak and suit industry, by Theodore I. Schneider. (Maxwell Keller Publishing Co., 1924), by Theodore I Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organization, management and technology in the manufacture of men's clothing (I. Pitman, 1929), by Martin E. Popkin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A seven years' view of sales and expenses of retail clothiers, 1916 to 1922 (Chicago, Ill., 1924), by Horace Secrist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merchandising of fashions; policies and methods of successful specialty stores (The Ronald Press Company, 1942), by John Bayly Swinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Establishing and operating an apparel store... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1946), by Zelma Bendure and Harvey W. Huegy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profitable specialty shop operation (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1938), by George C. Engel and Martin O. Kahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Experiences of smaller stores. (Fairchild Publications, 1955), by Jane Cahill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apparel manufacturing analysis. (Textile Book Publishers, 1961), by Jacob Solinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigations of closing of Nashua, N.H., mills and operations of Textron, incorporated. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, second session ... (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progressive sewing room. (Fairchild Publications, 1958), by Bertrand Frank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trade restraints and the competitive status of the textile, apparel, and nonrubber-footwear industries. (Washington, D.C. : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, [1991], 1991), by Bruce Gregory Arnold and United States Congressional Budget Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Probable domestic impact of changing from the chief value method of classifying textile imports to the chief weight method (The Commission, 1977), by United States International Trade Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Multifiber arrangement, 1973 to 1980 : report on investigations no. 332-108 under section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930. (United States International Trade Commission, 1981), by United States International Trade Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. ([New York], in the 20th century), by National Bellas Hess Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dress manufacturing industry (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special drives in knitted shirts and drawers, top shirts and wool half hose (s.n., 1800), by John Macdonald & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cost finding in the cloak and suit industry (A.J. Watt, printer], 1912), by Philip Frankel and Suit and Skirt Manufactures' Association National Cloak (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on garment salesmanship : written for the benefit and instruction of saleswomen throughout America who appreciate their positions and are endeavoring to develop their sales ability (Printz-Biederman, 1917), by Margaret Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... A survey of the garment trades in San Francisco (Berkeley, Calif., 1921), by Emily Godfrey Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progressive sewing room. (Fairchild Publications, 1960), by Bertrand Frank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Special wool & miscellaneous reports, 1938. ([New York, 1938), by New York International Statistical Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to promote an infants' and children's wear store. (Fairchild Publications, 1960), by Murray Raphel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apparel. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Industry and Trade Administration, 1979), by United States. International Trade Administration, Kurt Salmon Associates, and United States. Industry and Trade Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apparel industry and long-term economic growth (Washington, D.C., 1963), by American Apparel Manufacturers Association. Economic and Market Planning Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trends and prospects [in the] women's garment industry, 1947-1950; report presented to the ILGWU Atlantic City Convention, May, 1950. (New York, 1950), by International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. General Executive Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Foreign regulations affecting U.S. textile/apparel exports (United States Government Printing Office, 1990), by William E. Dawson, U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, and United States. International Trade Administration. Office of Textiles and Apparel. Market Expansion Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Clothiers reasons for establishing the Company of Merchant Adventurers of England ([London : s.n., 169-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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