An essay upon the probable methods of making a people gainers in the ballance of trade. Treating of these heads, viz. Of the people of England. Of the land of England, and its product. Of our payments to the publick, and in what manner the ballance of trade may be thereby affected. That a country cannot increase in wealth and power but by private men doing their duty to the publick, and but by a steady course of honesty and wisdom, in such as are trusted with the administration of affairs. By the author of the Essay on ways and means.
Charles Davenant (1656 - 1714)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3093392
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 181, 183-184, 186-187, 189-190, 192-312 p., [6] folded leaves of plates : tables ; 8vo. Running number: 4223. Provenance: manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Essay, &c. by Davenant" [i.e. author and title note and catalogue entry for anonymous works by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Occasional manuscript marginal annotations (p. 208, 217). Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Davenant (1656 - 1714)