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Iris Origo.
The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini.
Published London: The Reprint Society, 1959 (book club reissue, reprints the 1957 Jonathan Cape edn.)
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops.
Printer: Alden Press, Oxford.
Size: 152×224×26mm.
Page count: text 380pp; plates 20pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is ragged and a bit grubby; some wear on the boards and spine; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Penguin paperback in print at £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 639g.

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Presents a study of daily life in a fourteenth-century Italian city, based on a cache of some 150,000 letters which came to light in 1870.

Contents: Years in Avignon; Prato & the cloth trade; Trade at home & abroad; Trading companies & their members; Money; Husband & wife; ‘La famiglia’; The family friend; The house; The farm; Private account books; Food, drink & physic; Plague & penitence; Last years.
Appendices: Correspondence of Francesco di Marco; Transcription & translation of order for velvet & brocade (plate IV).

Illustrations: 20 pages of plates (4 in colour, the rest monochrome)
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page and end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: yes 

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