Considerations on Several Proposals, Lately Made, for the Better Maintenance of the Poor. With an Appendix, Containing Two Heads of Bills for the Better Government, Maintenance, and Employment of the Poor, Within the City and Liberty of Westminster Etc.
by [Gray, Charles]
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About This Item
London: C. Davis and M. Cooper, 1752. [2], iii-vi, 33pp, [1]. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, title and date in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. Back strip reglued, chipped to spine ends and joints, rubbed to extremities. Internally the title is browned, name of author to head, text lightly browned, but fairly clean. Printed by William Bowyer, and first published a year earlier without the appendix. Thirteen locations worldwide in ESTC. Goldsmiths 8750; Higgs 337. Second Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to. Pamphlet.
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- Zetetic Books (GB)
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- Title
- Considerations on Several Proposals, Lately Made, for the Better Maintenance of the Poor. With an Appendix, Containing Two Heads of Bills for the Better Government, Maintenance, and Employment of the Poor, Within the City and Liberty of Westminster Etc.
- Author
- [Gray, Charles]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- C. Davis and M. Cooper
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1752
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cat18, Poverty, Poor Law, Economics, Noisbn, Gray
- Bookseller catalogs
- Eighteenth Century; Economics;
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