Essays upon several subjects, or, Effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation
Subtitle: wherein are plainly laid down, the means by which the subjects in general may be eased and enriched; the poor relieved, and trade encreased in the most material branches of it, viz. in constituting seamen to theirs and the nations advantage, for encouragement of merchants and merchandizing; for relief of the poor of friendly societies; for discouraging vice, and encouraging vertue; the usefulness; of banks and assurances; to prevent bankrupts; with the surest way to recover bad debts; and many other considerable things, profitable and conducing to the great advantage of the nation in general
By: [Daniel Defoe]
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: T. Ballard
Published: 1702
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Essays; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation
Work titles: Essay upon projects
Notes: Preface signed: D. F., i.e. Daniel Defoe.- A reissue of the sheet of 'An essay upon projects', London, 1697, with a cancel titlepage.

Includes errata, p. 336.

Reproduction of the original from the Ida Rust MacPherson Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College.