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VAUBAN, Sebastien la Prestre de (1633-1707). A Project for a Royal Tythe: or, General Tax: which, by suppressing all the ancient funds and Later Projects for Raising the Publick Revenues, and for ever abolishing all Exemptions ... will firnish the Government a Fixt and Certain Revenue ... without oppressing the Subjects. London: J. Matthews for G. Strahan and R. Burrough, 1708. 8°. 2 folding printed tables (a little spotting and discolouration). Contemporary panelled calf (head of spine chipped, short splits in joints, corners a little worn), in a folding oatmeal cloth box. Provenance: Godfrey Boseville, 1798/9, pr. 3s 6d (inscription on an endpaper).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Vaubans Dixme Royale and an economic classic of the early eighteenth century. Schumpeter stated the work to be 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument ... Purposeful marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the word, and a forerunner of modern tendencies, History of Economic Analysis, p.204. The first edition was published anonymously in Rouen and only a few copies were issued for circulation among Vauban's friends although the preface to the English edition states 'It is said to have been presented to the King of France by the Author some time before his Death, and that it did not meet with a due Reception'. At all events it was condemned by the Parlement and the remainder of the first edition was seized by the police, both events probably contributing to Vauban's death a few weeks later.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Vaubans Dixme Royale and an economic classic of the early eighteenth century. Schumpeter stated the work to be 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument ... Purposeful marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the word, and a forerunner of modern tendencies, History of Economic Analysis, p.204. The first edition was published anonymously in Rouen and only a few copies were issued for circulation among Vauban's friends although the preface to the English edition states 'It is said to have been presented to the King of France by the Author some time before his Death, and that it did not meet with a due Reception'. At all events it was condemned by the Parlement and the remainder of the first edition was seized by the police, both events probably contributing to Vauban's death a few weeks later.
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