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POPE ( Charles ), ed. The Yearly Journal of Trade

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POPE ( Charles ), ed. The Yearly Journal of Trade

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
POPE ( Charles ), ed. The Yearly Journal of Trade, 1845 : laws of customs and excise. Treaties and conventions … Tariffs … Countervailing and inland duties. Duties of lights, buoys, pilotage, &c. Stamp and Post Office laws and rates. Proclamations. Orders in Council … Parliamentary speeches and papers. Reports of law cases … Translations of foreign documents. Dangers of the seas. Proceedings of scientific and learned societies. Geographical sketches and recent discoveries. Descriptions of articles of merchandise. Exchanges, moneys, weights, and measures. Miscellaneous information, not to be found in any work besides … Twenty-third edition. James Cochrane (1845)With a large folding world map (short, tear, no loss), with inset maps of the West Indies and of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, &c., pages xlvii, 616, (2, adverts on green paper), pages 550-616 comprising adverts, partly illustrated, 8vo, original cloth : a very good copy.An enormously wide range of information useful to mariners and traders. Characterised by McCulloch, 'The Literature of Political Economy', as 'Useful'.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) LAING ( Samuel ). National Distress ; its causes and remedies. Atlas Prize Essay. Longman, Brown … , 1844. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 4, (1) adverts, viii, 169, 32 (adverts), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by Westleys & Clark, with their ticket : with the occasional very light marginal pencil mark, but otherwise a very good to nice copy.A radical essay in which Laing graphically describes conditions in a nation convulsed by the early Industrial Revolution. A third of the population, he claims, “hover[s] on the verge of actual starvation”, another third is forced to labour in “crowded factories” and only the top third “earn[s] high wages, amply sufficient to support them in respectability and comfort …” "Vivid description of the wretched condition of the poor, based mainly upon Parliamentary reports. Greatest stress is laid upon moral causes, but the influences of population, the factory system, and foreign competition are also investigated. Some reflections are made upon remedial measures, free trade, taxation, currency, emigration, poor laws, saniutary regulations, and education." - Williams I. 252.(2) WADE ( John ). The Black Book : an exposition of abuses in church and state, courts of law, municipal corporations, and public companies ; with a precis of the house of commons, past, present, and to come. A new edition, greatly enlarged and corrected. By the original editor … [with :] Appendix to the Black Book … By the original editior. Sixth edition, with the 'Crisis' and a characteristic list of the anti-reform government. Effingham Wilson, 1835. With a double-page engraved frontispiece, pages xxxii, 683, (1, adverts) : xii, 132, in 1 volume, 8vo, recently, neatly and appropriately bound in black cloth : a very good copy with the contemporary signature of the Rev John Fitzpatrick on the title-page."The `Bible of the Reformers', a massive compendium of all the abuses, electoral, ecclesiastical, legal ... first published in 1820 and passed through edition after edition, continually augmented with new arguments, new reports of abuses and new statistics .... " - Printing and the Mind of Man, 296. It produced a considerable sensation and was Wade's greatest success.(3)ECONOMICS; ENGLAND; HISTORY; SOCIOLOGY; REFORM; ; ; ; ; ; ;