1783 Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age

Description

Leather Binding

The fourth edition of this work, which was first published in 1771.

Complete in two volumes. This fourth edition was the first expanded to two volumes.

This work is the result of Price's tenure assisting the Society for Equitable Assurances on actuarial matters.

This work book was significant in revealing that many of the schemes operated by assurance societies were potentially harmful to claimants.

With the bookplate of Thos. Marshall to the front pastedown of volume I.

ESTC T12986

This work was enormously influential for over a century.

The work of Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician, Richard Price.