📚 Merchants

Trade as a life: the conduct books, the counting-houses, and the memoirs from the old companies.

Below are the 25 works carrying the subject merchants in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home	Emily Post	1922	125
	The London merchant	George Lillo	1731	42
	The Pirate Queen	Susan Ronald	1705	14
	The London merchant, or The history of George Barnwell	George Lillo	1731	14
	The old merchants of New York City	Joseph Alfred Scoville	1863	14
	The merchant class of medieval London, 1300-1500	Sylvia L. Thrupp	1948	12
	In an antique land	Amitav Ghosh	1992	12
	The Merchant of Prato	Iris Origo	1957	10
	Nan qiao hui yi lu	Jiageng Chen	1946	9
	Appeal of J.L. D'Happart to the public	J. L. D'Happart	1797	8
	Lives of American merchants	Hunt, Freeman	1856	8
	Imported from London & sold by wholesale or retail at the cheapest rates by Joseph and Daniel Waldo at the Sign of the Elephant ... in King Street Boston New England	Joseph and Daniel Waldo (Firm)	1748	6
	Men of business	William Osborn Stoddard	1893	6
	The rise of the merchant class in Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868	Charles David Sheldon	1958	5
	The London merchant	George Lillo	1735	5
	The Browns of Providence Plantations	James Blaine Hedges	1952	4
	Old Hanging Ditch	Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson	1910	3
	Kaufleute zu Haus und über See	Percy Ernst Schramm	1949	2
	Fifty years with the Golden Rule	J. C. Penney	1950	2
	The Muscovy merchants of 1555	Thomas Stuart Willan	1953	2
	Homens de grossa aventura	João Luís Ribeiro Fragoso	1992	2
	Merchants and mariners	David M. Williams	2000	2
	The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant 1500-1800	Ashin Das Gupta	2001	2
	Enterprise and adventure	Ruth Pike	1966	1
	Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Qur'an	Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt	2006	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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