A collection of tracts concerning the present state of Ireland : with respect to its riches, revenue, trade, and manufactures
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Type of record: Book
Title: A collection of tracts concerning the present state of Ireland : with respect to its riches, revenue, trade, and manufactures
Classmark: BC Pol BRO
Additional creator(s): Browne, John of Dublin (Other); Dobbs, Arthur (1689-1765) (Other); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for T. Woodward... and J. Peele
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1729
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 unnumbered pages, 32, 41-46 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 47-144 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286830
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002331619705181
Description
Each tract has a separate title-page.
Attributions of individual works from Goldsmiths' Lib. cat.
Described at Teerink 938.
"Seasonable remarks" and the "Essay", both by Browne, were answered by "Considerations"; to this Browne replied in "An appeal", which was followed by "A letter".
Numerous errors in paging. Sig. E1 (pp. 41-2) follows D4 (pp. 31-2) and the catchword is answered. There is no break in the text. Sigs. P and Q have pagination transposed. Pp. 121-128 (sig. P) are followed by pp. 113-120 (sig. Q).
Contents: (from t.p.) I. Seasonable remarks on trade... / [by Sir J. Browne] -- II. An essay on trade in general, and that of Ireland in particular / [by Sir J. Browne] -- III. Considerations on two papers lately publish'd ... / [formerly ascribed to Dean Swift but probably by A. Dobbs] -- IV. An appeal to the Reverend Dean Swift, by way of reply to the observer on Seasonable remarks / [by Sir J. Browne] -- V. A letter in answer to a paper intitl'd, An appeal to the Reverend Dean Swift / [attributed to A. Dobbs].
Indexed in: Goldsmiths' Lib. cat 6635; Kress 3788; Hanson 3902n.
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