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- ↑ David J. Shaw, 'Retail distribution networks in East Kent in the eighteenth century'. pp. 197–205, in: Worlds of Print: Diversity in the book trade, edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong. British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2006. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-7123-4937-5.
- ↑ David J. Shaw, 'Serialisation of Moll Flanders in The London Post and The Kentish Post, 1722'. The Library, 7th series, 8, no. 2 (June 2007) 182–192. ISSN 0024-2160 (online version: 1744-8581).