English Fur Trade in the Later Middle Ages
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- Author(s) Veale, Elspeth M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 2nd ed; 254pp; illus
- Publisher London Record Society
- Place Published London
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1966 with the second edition containing a new preface. Scholarly account. Deals with processing and manufacture of furs and the international trade in furs from the 13th to the 16th century focusing especially on London where the structure and organisation of the industry is considered in two chapters. Other chapters cover the uses of fur; fashion aspects and the industry; trade in fur; livery companies and the fur industry in the 16th century; etc. Includes much about the Worshipful Co of Skinners whose archives are widely used