Strictures on the necessity of inviolably maintaining the navigation and colonial system of Great Britain. New edition, very much enlarged., with an Appendix, & C.

Edition unknown. 8vo. ( 210mm ) Pp. [5] vi - xxiii, [1] 2 - 318. With a half title. Wanting the final blank. Contents very occasionally lightly browned, otherwise clean. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, recent green cloth spine and title label.The text with a number of tables. Lord Sheffield published a number of pamphlets on social and commercial questions, in this pamphlet he questions the suspension of Navigation Laws that rendered England as a free port. Lord Sheffield, Baker, John Holroyd (1735 - 1821 ) was born in Yorkshire, statesman and friend of Edward Gibbon. He was created earl of Sheffield and Viscount Penensey in peerage of Ireland,1816 ; British peer, 1802 ; privy councillor, 1809 ; lord of Board of Trade, 1809. For more details see ODNB ; Isaac, 477d. Kress B.5115.