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[TRADE]. Propositions for Improving the Manufactures, Agriculture and Commerce, of Great Britain. London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1763.
8o (223 x 139 mm). Half-title. (Some uncut edges slightly chipped, small wormhole from p.61 to end, occasionally affecting letters.) Stabbed-and-sewn in original plain blue paper wrappers, uncut (few chips and losses, faint ink drawing on upper wrapper). Provenance: E.M. Vaughan (ink signature on half-title, marginalia on I5r-v).
FIRST EDITION. Included are references to the Canadian fur trade on pp.16-20. The author makes numerous suggestions, such as abolishing the poorhouses, abolishing customs' duties on French wines and other products to avoid smuggling, but instead finding other ways of taxing them; he also proposes to abolish monopolies, such as the Hudson's Bay Company, and devotes a long section (pp.112-115) to the detrimental effects this monopoly has on prices; the last two chapters of the work (pp.117-end) are entirely concerned with the American colonies: "Proposal VI. To give large bounties for the encouragement of a Trade with our North-American Colonies; especially in such articles as shall make for the mutual advantage of both the mother country and her colonies; Proposal VII. To establish a colony for the growth of sugars, coffee, cocoa-nut, indigo, &c. in the eastern part of Louisiana." Kress 6130.
8o (223 x 139 mm). Half-title. (Some uncut edges slightly chipped, small wormhole from p.61 to end, occasionally affecting letters.) Stabbed-and-sewn in original plain blue paper wrappers, uncut (few chips and losses, faint ink drawing on upper wrapper). Provenance: E.M. Vaughan (ink signature on half-title, marginalia on I5r-v).
FIRST EDITION. Included are references to the Canadian fur trade on pp.16-20. The author makes numerous suggestions, such as abolishing the poorhouses, abolishing customs' duties on French wines and other products to avoid smuggling, but instead finding other ways of taxing them; he also proposes to abolish monopolies, such as the Hudson's Bay Company, and devotes a long section (pp.112-115) to the detrimental effects this monopoly has on prices; the last two chapters of the work (pp.117-end) are entirely concerned with the American colonies: "Proposal VI. To give large bounties for the encouragement of a Trade with our North-American Colonies; especially in such articles as shall make for the mutual advantage of both the mother country and her colonies; Proposal VII. To establish a colony for the growth of sugars, coffee, cocoa-nut, indigo, &c. in the eastern part of Louisiana." Kress 6130.