On the taxes on knowledge
Subtitle: from the Westminster Review, no. XXIX, for July 1, 1831.
Contributors: Thompson, T. Perronet 1783-1869.; Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890.
Publisher: Republished by Robert Heward
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Freedom of information -- Great Britain.; Government information -- Great Britain.; Communication policy -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Westminster review.
Notes: Reviews of: 1. The moral and political evils of the taxes on knowledge, expounded in the speeches delivered at the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, on the subject of a petition to Parliament against the continuance of the stamp duty onnewspapers, the duties on advertisements, and on printing-paper. Effingham Wilson. 1831. - 2. Lettert to a minister of state, respecting the taxes on knowledge. 1831. - 3. The real incendiaries and promoters of crime. (From the Examiner of February 20).

Attributed to T. Perronet Thompson - Goldsmiths' Library; attributed to Sir Edwin Chadwick. Cf. S.E. Finer, The life and times of Sir Edwin Chadwick, 1952, p. 530.

Title vignette (signed W.E.).

Reference: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 27156.