Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750

Hanson, L. W.

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1963

About this Item

8vo (23.5 cm), XIV, 978 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (jacket clipped and frayed at extremities, endpapers stained, edges slightly dusted). An indispensable bibliographical reference recording all new works on economic affairs published in the first half of the eighteenth century, compiled from the principal libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. The catalogue contains just over 6,500 main entries arranged chronologically by year of publication, each year subdivided under the headings General, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Colonies, Finance, Transport, and Social Conditions. Entries provide author, full title, place and date of publication, format, and location, with titles transcribed in full to avoid ambiguity; first editions receive complete entries, while subsequent editions and reissues are recorded in footnotes. Preceded by a substantial introduction describing the history of the project, methods of compilation and transcription, and the readership for whom these books and pamphlets were originally intended. A fundamental resource for the study of eighteenth-century economic and social history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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