A select collection of scarce and valuable economical tracts : from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, Bell, and others : with a preface, notes, and index
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Type of record: Book
Title: A select collection of scarce and valuable economical tracts : from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, Bell, and others : with a preface, notes, and index
Classmark: Economics A-0.03/MAC
Creator(s): McCulloch, J R (1789-1864)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1859
Language: English
Size and medium: 571 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/185735
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008425039705181
Description
An edition of two hundred copies.
Edited by J.R. McCulloch for Lord Overstone.
Contents: 1. An apology for the builder. 1685. -- 2. Giving alms no charity / [by Daniel Defoe]. 1704. -- 3. A view of the Greenland trade / [By Henry Elking]. 1722. -- An apology for the business of pawn broking / By a pawnbroker. 1744. -- 5. Extracts from the works of Dr. Franklin, on population, commerce, &c. -- 6. Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth / By M. Turgot. 1793. -- 7. Extract from An inquiry into the nature of the Corn Laws / [By James Anderson]. 1777. -- 8. A treatise on the maritime laws of Rhodes / By Alexander C. Schomberg. 1776. -- 9. A dissertation on the Poor Laws / By a well-wisher to mankind. 1766. -- 10. Thoughts and details on scarcity / By Edmund Bruke. 1800. -- 11. An inquiry into the policy and justice of the prohibition of the use of grain in the distilleries, &c. / By Archibald Bell. 1808.
Additional description
Lord Overstone's autograph presentation inscription on flyleaf
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