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Title
Discourses on the publick revenues, and on the trade of England. In two parts. Viz. I. Of the use of political arithmetick, in all considerations about the revenues and trade. II. On credit, and the means and methods by which it may be restored. III. On the management of the King's revenues. IV. Whither to farm the revenues, may not, in this juncture, be most for the publick service? V. On the publick debts and engagements. By the author of The essay on ways and means. Part I. To which is added, a discourse upon improving the revenue of the state of Athens. Written originally in Greek, by Xenophon; and now made English from the original, with some historical notes; by another hand.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1622
HJ1013 .D27
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcsq87c483m
Language
English
Date Created
1698
Format
Book
Extent
[16], 279, [1], 62, [2], [12], 241, 243-244, 246-247, 249-250, 252-434, 64 p., [4] leaves of plates : charts ; 8vo.
Provenance
ExW copy has in volumes with Part II: booklabel of Henry Massingberd, Gunby, 1781, No. [in mss] 451.
Princeton copy 1 On verso of title page of part 2: Armorial bookplate of Charles Fox of the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields Esq. 1702.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D306
ESTC R9868
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With half-title and final advertisement leaf in part 1.
"A discourse upon improving the revenue of the state of Athens" has a separate title page with imprint "... J. Knapton, 1697", separate pagination, and with register begining on quire 2A.
Text and register for part 2 are continuous despite pagination.
"Discourses on the publick revenues, and on the trade of England. Which more immediately treat of the foreign traffick of this kingdom. ... Part II. ..." has a separate dated title page, separate pagination and register.
"An essay on the East-India trade" has a separate undated title page with imprint "... printed for J.K.", separate pagination, and with register begining on quire 3A.
ExW copy has bound in with Part II: An essay upon the probable methods of making a people gainers in the ballance of trade (2nd edition, London, 1700).
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Later three quarter leather; marbled boards; part 1 and part 2 bound separately.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bf265601-8758-42e7-9b39-3ad35670d46e/manifest