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A Proposal for Raising Sixty Thousand Pounds per annum, without Charge of Collecting, in a Treble Benefit to the Nation by the Payment. Humbly Offered to the Parliament of Great Britain [caption title].

[London]: 1714. Broadsheet, 14 x 9 inches. [1]p., plus printed docket title on verso. Disbound. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Small portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Some foxing and light offsetting.

An early petitionary leaflet detailing the history of English trade protections on wool since the reign of Edward III, expressing concern over Dutch economic competition, and proposing a ten groat-per-cloth duty on woolens being exported from Britain by alien merchants. The document is among the first examples of commercial lobbying literature, which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid-1710s. ESTC records four copies in the U.K. and three in the U.S.: at Columbia, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the University of Kansas.

Goldsmiths 5157. Hanson 2035.

Item #21220

Price: $475.00