The Circumstances of Scotland Consider'd, with Respect to the Present Scarcity of Money: Together with Some Proposals for Supplying the Defect Thereof, and Rectifying the Ballance of Trade
The Circumstances of Scotland Consider'd, with Respect to the Present Scarcity of Money: Together with Some Proposals for Supplying the Defect Thereof, and Rectifying the Ballance of Trade
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries ...
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T083710 Attributed to Sir John Clerk of Penicuick in MS. note in E copy. P.28 misnumbered 26. Edinburgh: printed by James Watson in the year, 1705. 26[i.e.28]p.; 4???
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Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Printed by James Watson, Edinburgh, UK. 1705. 26 pgs. Originally issued in wraps. Bound In plain paper covered cloth boards with cloth spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (light rubbing and soiling present to the boards). No ownership marks present. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet (1676–1755) was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer. He was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer for Scotland on the constitution of the Exchequer Court, 13 May 1708, a position he held for nearly half a century. With Baron Scrope, in 1726, he drew up an Historical View of the Forms and Powers of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, which was printed at the expense of the Barons of Exchequer for private circulation. E-156; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.3 inches; 32 pages.
