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Title
England's improvement by sea and land : to out-do the Dutch without fighting, to pay debts without moneys, to set at work all the poor of England with the growth of our own lands : to prevent unnecessary suits in law, with the benefit of a voluntary register : directions where vast quantities of timber are to be had for the building of ships, with the advantage of making the great rivers of England navigable : rules to prevent fires in London, and other great cities : with directions how the several companies of handicraftsmen in London may always have cheap bread and drink / by Andrew Yarranton, gent.
Call Number
HC254.5 .Y2
Lapidus 5.1568
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcsx61dx483
Publisher
London : Printed by R. Everingham for the author, and are to be sold by T. Parkhurst ... and N. Simmons ..., 1677-1698.
Language
English
Date Created
1677-1698
Extent
2 v. ([20], 195 [i.e. 171] p., [8] folded leaves of plates; [8], 212 [i.e. 204] p., [7] folded leaves of plates) : ill., maps, plans ; 19 cm. (4to).
Provenance
Princeton copy 2 ReCAP copy has inscribed on front free endpaper 'Walter Kirkham Blount, Nov 10 1676 pre[tium] w/4
Princeton copy 3 Lapidus copy: Armorial bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers, covering over the armorial bookplate of Treadway Nash, D.D. of Bevere, Worchestershire.
Princeton copy 3 Lapidus copy: On front pastedown: ink stamp of Lowes Agricultural Trust, Rothamsted.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 3 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R221084
ESTC R222184
Wing (2nd ed.) Y13aA
Wing (2nd ed.) Y13B
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signatures: v. 1: a-b⁴ c² A-I⁴ M-Z⁴ 2A²; v. 2: A-P⁴ p⁴ Q-2B⁴ 2C²
Errors in paging: v. 1: p. 112 misnumbered 110, p. 72-96 omitted in pagination; v. 2: p. 117 misnumbered 11, p. 121-128 omitted in pagination.
Vol. 2: catchword on p. 112 is "In", p. 113 begins "A Method ..."
Vol. 2 has title: England's improvement by sea and land. The second part : Containing, I. An account of its scituation, and the growths, and manufactures thereof. II. The benefit and necessity of a voluntary-register. III. A method for improving the Royal-navy, lessening the growing power of France, and obtaining the fishery. IV. Advantageous proposals for the city of London, for the preventing of fires therein; and for lessening the great charge of the trained bands. V. The way to make New-Haven in Sussex, fit to receive ships of burthen. VI. Seasonable discourses of the tin, iron, linnen, and woollen trades; with advantageous proposals for improving them all : Illustrated with seven large copper-plates / By Andrew Yarranton, gent. London : Printed, to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst ..., 1698.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 3 Lapidus copy has both parts bound in one volume, contemporary calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Great Britain—Economic conditions
Great Britain—Economic policy

Physical Characteristics

File Count
473

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/65717c71-fb75-4684-8a23-c9df2342162d/manifest