Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… to trades and professions. They were used to provide a range of customers, including lawyers, merchants and travellers, with useful reference materials, such as tables of names, addresses and road maps. Furthermore, trade directories were … and descendants of all living peers ( Peerages) , baronets ( Baronetages) , and later of the landed gentry. Along with giving an up-to-date snapshot of the titled families, they could be used by anyone in search of patronage and … British Compendium was to provide a didactic description of the several degrees of gentry, and their precedency, along with a method in order to recognise the Peers’ arms, ‘as commonly borne on their coaches'. 3 At 3 shillings each, …
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