A select collection of scarce and valuable economical tracts
By: from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, Bell, and others; with a preface, notes, and index
Contributors: Overstone, Samuel Jones Loyd, Baron, 1796-1883, donor; Commercial Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
Subjects: Economics
Other titles: Commercial pamphlets.
Notes: "This volume printed by Lord Overstone ... edited by J. R. McCulloch"--Page opposite t.p.

"Two hundred copies printed"--T.p. verso.

NUC pre-1956 NM 0030966

LC copy has inscription on front fly-leaf: "For the Library of Congress, Washington with Lord Overstone's compliments". Has bookplate on front paste-down: "Smithsonian deposit".
Table of contents: title: An apology for the builder; title: Giving alms no charity; title: A view of the Greenland trade and whale-fishery; title: An apology for the business of pawn-broking / by a pawnboker; title: Extracts from the works of Dr. Franklin, on population, commerce, & c.; title: Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth / by M. Turgot; title: Extract from an inquiry into the nature of the corn laws; title: A treatise on the maritime laws of Rhodes / by A. C. Schomberg; title: A dissertation on the poor laws / by a well-wisher to mankind; title: Thoughts and details on scarcity / by Edmund Burke; title: An inquiry into the policy and justice of the prohibition of the use of grain in the distilleries, & c. / by Archibald Bell; title: Index.