A Compendium of the Laws, Passed from Time to Time, For Regulating.

An Analysis of Great Britain's Controversial Corn Trade [Graham, Sir James (1792-1861)]. A Compendium of the Laws, Passed from Time to Time, For Regulating and Restricting the Importation, Exportation, And Consumption of Foreign Corn, From the Year 1660; And a Series of Accounts, From the Date of the Earliest Official Records; Showing the Operation of the Several Statutes, The Average Prices of Corn, &c. &c. Presenting a Complete View of the Corn Trade of Great Britain. Compiled from Public Documents, And Brought Down to the Present Time. London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1833. 62, [2], 63-71, [1] pp. 2-pp. publisher catalogue bound after p. 62. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet, edges rouged. Light toning, small faint stain to first two leaves, marginal pencil marks to a few pages, early annotation to upper corner of title page. $450. * Third and final edition. First published in 1826, this analysis of Great Britain's corn trade gives a detailed overview of corn imports and exports beginning in 1660. The corn laws, a protective tariff established to keep domestic corn prices high, were the cause of increasing protest and unrest as they became more rigorous in the nineteenth century. They would be repealed outright in 1846 after the first two years of the Great Famine in Ireland. OCLC locates 7 copies of the third edition, 1 in North America (Harvard). Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 27914.…