Bath Commercialis'd: Shops, Trades and Market at the 18th Century Spa

by Trevor Fawcett

The retail shops and the abundantly supplied provisions market ranked among the major ‘conveniences’ of Georgian Bath. Like any other town, it had its butchers and pastry cooks, its smiths and mercers, its shoe makers and coal men, and a fair share too of laundresses, pawn brokers, street pedlars and cheap corner shops. What set it apart, though, was its trade in luxury commodities, hardly surpassed outside the capital itself...

146 pages, Paperback

First published November 22, 2002