A collection of several authentick accounts of the history and price of wheat, bread, malt, &c
Subtitle: from the coming in of William the Conqueror to Michaelmas 1745 : with some occasional remarks ....
Contributors: Warden, W., bookseller; Davis, Charles, -1755, bookseller; Hyde, Donald Frizell, 1909-1966, former owner
Publisher: Printed for W. Warden, and sold by C. Davis
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Grain; Prices; History; Bakeries; Law and legislation; Bakers; Bread; Standards; Famines
Other titles: True relation or collection of the most remarkable dearths and famines
Work titles: Artachthos
Notes: Special t.p.: "A true relation or collection of the most remarkable dearths and famines ... To Michaelmas 1745 : As also the rising and falling of the price of wheat and other graine ... briefly set down."

Dedication signed John Penkethman.

Added engraved t.p.: "Artachthos, or, A new book declaring the assise or weight of bread by troy and avoirdupois weights, containing divers orders and articles made and set forth the right Hon[oura]ble the Lords and others of His Majesty's most Hon[oura]ble Privy Council. Whereunto are added other necessary tables instructions and relations which in the next title page are at large express'd. Published by their Lordships orders. London : Printed for R. Bishop, A.D. 1638, Reprinted for W. Warden, A.D. 1748."

Reissue of the 1745 ed. with a different t.p. and frontispiece.

Last leaf: Advertisement to this book called Artachthos, a few sheets will be added, (some of them now in the press) containing ... (lists 10 inserts)

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