OF A

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

BY

THRONE CRICK.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET.

MDCCCXLVII.

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PREFACE.

IT has long been matter of surprise, that although every other class of individuals in the community, and I may say every subject, have, at one time or other, had their special historians or illustrators, till classes and subjects have become almost exhausted, not a single attempt should have been made to render justice to the large, important, and influential body of Commercial Travellers.

This may perhaps be accounted forin part at least-from the almost exclusive character of the Commercial Room, which but rarely admits the entrée of professional writers, or indeed of any strangers, within its circle. The locomotive representatives of our great manufactories and mercantile establishments