Merchants [ Commerce ]
… came together in the Royal Exchange to discuss business at prescribed times as regulated by the city authorities. The print maker, John Seller, created an ‘ichnographical draught’ of the Royal Exchange that marked out the different … credit and trust and this too had a social life. The area around the Royal Exchange was also in the heart of a print and bookselling area, and surrounded by shops which sold numerous luxury goods. Beyond the Royal Exchange, … in the public sphere. Information on imports, exports, stock prices, and exchange rates came through people and through print. Business periodicals, such as John Houghton’s A collection of Improvement of Husbandry and Trade (1692-1793) and …
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