Description
FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp. [iv], 197, [1] + 2 folded tables. Extracted from a volume. A little light soiling. Ownership inscription of Sir Wm. Forbes to title-page.
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain During the Present and Four Preceding Reigns; And of the Losses of Her Trade from Every War Since the Revolution. To Which is Added An Essay on Population by The Lord Chief Justice Hale.
- London: Printed for C. Dilly... and J. Bowen 1782
- ESTC T6295; McCulloch p. 217.
£95
Notes
The first edition of this historico-economic analysis of Britain's position as a result of previous wars, 'written to dispel the gloomy apprehensions of those who supposed that the country was in a ruined state at the close of the American war' (McCulloch). Further editions followed in 1794, 1802, and 1810.
