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A68601 Tom of all trades. Or The plaine path-vvay to preferment Being a discovery of a passage to promotion in all professions, trades, arts, and mysteries. Found out by an old travailer in the sea of experience, amongst the inchanted islands of ill fortune. Now published for common good. By Thomas Povvell. Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635? 1631 (1631) STC 20168; ESTC S114992 23,102 81

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