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The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper: Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and [ ]et cut it as long and large, as others [ ]ail out of a quarter more. A work [n]ever before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F.

Title:The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper: Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and [ ]et cut it as long and large, as others [ ]ail out of a quarter more. A work [n]ever before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F.
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Note:London : printed for John Sprint at the Bell, and Geo. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain, 1696
  
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Subject:Linen industry -- England
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