A New Discourse of Trade: Wherein Are Recommended Several Weighty Points, Relating to Companies of Merchants. the Act of Navigation. Naturalization of Strangers, and Our Woollen Manufactures. the Ballance of Trade by Josiah Sir Child, 1630-1699

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London: Printed for J. Hodges, on London Bridge, 1745. Collation, xlvi, 260[2]pp. Bound in full period calf, raised bands, gilt lines, gilt rule lines on boards. Calf rubbed and scuffed, some wear loss on edges, hinge joints starting to crack, but boards firmly attached. Generally a nice binding. Internally, early previous owners bookplate, and name in a couple of places. Pages in good clean condition. A nice clean copy, in an attractive period binding. A11. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. Near Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: J. Hodges, et. al., 1740.. Hardcover. Good. Large duodecimo. [iv], xlvi, 262pp. [-]2, A12-M12, N10. Fourth edition. With the final advertisement leaf present. Modern half goatskin over marbled boards. Sabin 12708n (citing incorrect date); Kress 4492; Goldsmith 7762/7763; Einaudi 1082; O'Dea 77 (citing incorrect date); McCulloch pp. 41-42; Palgrave I, p. 277; Bowyer 10.

1698. A Classic Statement of English Mercantilist Thought, Includes a Section on Usury Child, Sir Josiah [1630-1699]. [Culpeper, Sir Thomas (1626-1697)]. A New Discourse of Trade, Wherein is Recommended Several Weighty Points Relating to Companies of Merchants. The Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, And Our Woolen Manufactures. The Balance of Trade, And the Nature of Plantations, And Their Consequences in Relation to the Kingdom, Are Seriously Discussed. Methods for the Employment and Maintenance of the Poor are Proposed. The Reduction of Interest of Money to 4 l. Per Centum, Is Recommended. And Some Proposals for Erecting a Court of Merchants for Determining Controversies, Relating to Maritime Affairs, And for a Law for Transferrance of Bills of Debts, Are Humbly Offered. London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1698. [xlviii], 238, [12] pp. Includes a 12 pp, publisher catalogue. Octavo (6-1/4" x 4"). Eighteenth-century paneled calf, raised bands, lettering piece and gilt ornaments to… Read More

London: J. Hodges, W. Meadows [& 4 others],, [1740?]. First published in 1690 as A Discourse about Trade by Sir Josiah Child (c. 1631 - 1699), economic writer and merchant. "In 1690 he published under his own name the comprehensive Discourse about Trade, which included his Proposals for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, which had appeared earlier as an undated pamphlet. This work was reprinted in 1693 under the title A New Discourse on Trade to coincide with a new attempt in parliament to reduce the legal maximum rate of interest... Child acquired considerable fame as an economic writer in his own day and was both widely read and frequently quoted. His works were reprinted continuously during the eighteenth century and published in French in 1754. He exerted influence because of his fluent and persuasive pen, his debating skills, and his obvious success in and experience of business" (ODNB). As Geoffrey Poitras notes "Child is another of the truly remarkable individuals populating the early… Read More

London: Printed and sold by Sam Crouch, Tho. Horn, & Jos. Hindmarsh, , 1694. Contemporary mottled calf Second edition, second issue: first published in 1690 as A Discourse about Trade (developed from a thin pamphlet of 1668), ESTC describes this as a reissue, with a cancel title page, of the second edition (renamed A New Discourse of Trade) of 1693. It includes Sir Thomas Culpeper's A Small Treatise against Usury (pp. 217-36). "In 1690 [Child (c.1631-1699), economic writer and merchant] published under his own name the comprehensive Discourse about Trade, which included his Proposals for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, which had appeared earlier as an undated pamphlet. This work was reprinted in 1693 under the title A New Discourse on Trade to coincide with a new attempt in parliament to reduce the legal maximum rate of interest... Child acquired considerable fame as an economic writer in his own day and was both widely read and frequently quoted. His works were reprinted continuously during… Read More