The trades increase
Contributors: J. R. (John Roberts); Brown, Harold, 1863-1900
Publisher: Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Walter Burre
Published: 1615
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Fisheries; Atlantic herring fisheries; Commerce; Commercial policy; East India Company
Notes: Preface, p. [3-5], 1st count, signed: I.R.

Written by Robert Kayll and wrongly ascribed to John Roberts. Cf. William Foster, the author of "The trades increase" in London times literary supplement, March 29, 1934, p. 229 and also E. Lipson, The economic history of England, 1931, v. 2, p. 279.

Concerning fisheries, especially the Atlantic herring fishery; also concerns competion with the United Provinces of the Netherlands for the same commodities and the East India Company's monopoly on trade.

There are three variants in which the text has been reset; in this issue, the catchword on p. 5 reads "new" without a comma.

Signatures: A-H⁴ (-A4) (A2, A3 versos blank)

Errors in paging: p. 42 is misnumbered 43; p. 43 is misnumbered 42.

Woodcut head pieces; initials.

Arents Tobacco Collection. Tobacco: a catalogue, 167.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, I:439.

Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 347.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 14894.8.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 109.

European Americana, 615/74.

English short title catalogue, S4728.

Purchase; before 1874 07983.