THE LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE SIR DUDLEY NORTH, KNT. COMMISSIONER OF THE CUSTOMS, AND AFTERWARDS OF THE TREASURY TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES THE SECOND, AND OF THE HONOURABLE AND REVEREND DR. JOHN NORTH, MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, AND GREEK PROFESSOR, PREBEND OF WESTMINSTER, AND SOMETIME CLERK OF THE CLOSET TO THE SAME KING CHARLES THE SECOND

North, Roger

Published by Printed for the Editor, and sold by John Whiston, at Mr. Boyle's Head in Fleet-Street, London, 1744

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Full contemporary leather, spine rebacked with new red leather label with title in gilt. Quarto [10x8 inches] Corners bumped, scratches to boards, wear along spine end. Textblock square, binding strong. vi,288,[7] Three portrait frontis. Text is clean and bright, nice copy, and solidly bound. Dudley North [1641-1691] served under Charles II and then James II as Comissioner of Customs. He is known for his ideas on free trade in his "Discourses on Trade" published anonomously in 1691 and later promoted by the political economist James Mill who read the account in the above edition.

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• Title: THE LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE SIR DUDLEY NORTH, KNT. COMMISSIONER OF THE CUSTOMS, AND AFTERWARDS OF THE TREASURY TO HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES THE SECOND, AND OF THE HONOURABLE AND REVEREND DR. JOHN NORTH, MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE, AND GREEK PROFESSOR, PREBEND OF WESTMINSTER, AND SOMETIME CLERK OF THE CLOSET TO THE SAME KING CHARLES THE SECOND
• Publisher: Printed for the Editor, and sold by John Whiston, at Mr. Boyle's Head in Fleet-Street, London
• Publication Date: 1744
• Binding: Leather-bound
• Condition: Very Good
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  • Biography, Autobiography