This 4-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Part 1 contains 'Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s'.

Introduction to Part I, The Early Trade with India and Its Impact Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Jacob Cornelissoon van Neck, A True Report of the Gainefull, Prosperous and Speedy Voyage to Java in the East Indies ( 1599) A True and Large Discourse of the Voyage of the Whole Fleete of Ships Set Forth... to the East Indies (1603) A Letter Written to the Right Worshipfull the Governours and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London ( 1603) The Register of Letters &c, of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies ( 1600-19) Gerard Malynes, Consuetudo, vellex mercatoria: or, The Ancient Law- Merchant(1622) A Courante of Newesfrom the East India ( 1622) William Bruton, Newesfrom the East-Indies: or, A Voyage to Bengalla (1638) Thomas Mun, A Discourse of Trade, from England unto the East-Indies (1621) The Petition and Remonstrance of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading to the East Indies ( 1628) Changing Patterns of Consumption and the Early Debates in Britain John May, A Declaration of the Estate of Clothing now used within this Realme of England (1613) Part Contents- Selected writings to 1700