Harding, Howell & Co. Explained

Harding Howell and Company's Grand Fashionable Magazine was an 18th-century department store at 89 Pall Mall in St James's, London. Open from 1796 to 1820, it could be considered a forerunner of the modern department store.^[1]

The shop was divided into four departments, selling fur and fans, fabric for dresses, haberdashery, jewelry and clocks, perfume and millinery.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: A history of the department store. BBC Culture. 15 September 2019.
2. Book: Christopher Breward. Edwina Ehrman. Caroline Evans. The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk ; [published in Conjunction with the Museum of London Exhibition, The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk, 19 October 2004]]. 2004. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-10399-1. 24.