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    By Robert Hamilton
    Edinburgh   Oliphant, Waugh and Innes; W. Turnbull
    9.5" by 6.5" vi [3], 2-272pp
    An exceptionally bright example of the second edition of Robert Hamilton's detailed, analytic study of Britain’s public debt and of the problems with the general sinking fund policy of the period.
    By Robert Hamilton

    1814 An Inquiry Concerning the Rise and Progress, the Redemption and Present State, and the Management of the National Debt of Great Britain

    Edinburgh   Oliphant, Waugh and Innes; W. Turnbull
    9.5" by 6.5" vi [3], 2-272pp
    An exceptionally bright example of the second edition of Robert Hamilton's detailed, analytic study of Britain’s public debt and of the problems with the general sinking fund policy of the period.
    £135.00
    : 1kgs / : 973F20
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    Early Edition, Rebound

    The second edition of this work, enlarged from the first edition of the previous year.

    This essay on the National Debt was the first to expose the economic fallacies in William Pitt's policy of a sinking fund.

    From Robert Hamilton, a Scottish political economist and founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 

    Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. With the stamp of the City of London Libraries to the title page.

    Condition

    Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamp to title page. Pages otherwise clean and only a touch age toned.

    Very Good

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