An impartial inquiry into the benefits and damages arising to the nation from the present very great use of low-priced spirituous liquors: . with proper estimates thereupon, and some considerations humbly offered for preventing the introduction of foreign spirits not paying the duties. By J. T. of Bristol. ...
Josiah Tucker (1712-1799) Dean of Gloucester
Category
Books
Date
1751
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3142904
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],33,[1]p. . 8vo.. Bound with Tucker 'A brief essay on ... trade' (London, 1753), and with other items by Tucker bound into the volume. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: [brown ink] M.5.19; [pencil] T/8; [dark blue ink] T.2.43. With manuscript notes, in eighteenth-century hand, on two bifolia of gilt-edged paper, loose inside: 'Translation of an extract from the book entitled 'Il consolato del mare'; Muratori historia Italiae Vol. 2'. (Neither work appears to be in the collection at Wimpole).. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770].. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled sheep, gilt filets. Sewn: unused stitching holes visible in gutter margin.
Makers and roles
Josiah Tucker (1712-1799) Dean of Gloucester