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"No man of sense ought to be ashamed of being called a shopkeeper" - Napoleon ==This is a global project - everyone is invited to add their retailing ancestors to this project (profiles must be set to public). Project collaborators, feel free to update the project description, adding notes, documents, images, resources ... and inviting more collaborators.===See Notable Retailers ==Notes==From R...
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Add professional booksellers, bookmen, and bookstore owners to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers or bookmen . The founding of libraries in 300 BC stimulated the energies of the ...
Were Confectioners formerly what we think of today, sweet makers? Or did they, in the past, besides cakes, pies,and sweet treats, make and sell savoury treats as well? There is a book printed in 1800 "The Complete Confectioner" and the table of contents alone is 34 pages long and includes items that we can only wonder at what they may be. Flummery sounds rather nice though.If your ancestor was ...