A Discourse of the Necessity of encouraging Mechanick Industry: : wherein is plainly proved, that luxury and the want of artisans labour, became the ruin of the four grand monarchies of the world, in the former age, and of Spain and other countries in this: and the promoting of manual trades the rise of the Dutch, Germans, &c. Parallel'd and compared with, and shewn to be practicable under the present constitution of England..
London : printed for R. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard,
MDCXC. [1690].
"Licens'd, Aug. 23d. 1689." -- t.p.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Industrial arts
Industrial arts