A plan for reducing the poor's rate, by giving employment to the labouring classes: with some observations on the cultivation of flax and hemp;

HILL (Samuel)

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and an account of a new process for dressing and preparing flax and hemp, without water-steeping or dew-rotting. By Samuel Hill Esq. With the report of a committee of the House of Commons on the merits of the invention. Second edition. London: printed for J. Harding, 36, St. James's Street; by B. M'Millan, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. 1817. [7],8-34,[2]p. Final leaf is blank. Stab sewn, uncut, as issued. Remains of a small old manuscript library sticker at the bottom of the title page otherwise a very good copy. Preserved in a purpose-made boards slip case. Goldsmiths' 21905. Kress B.6944.The first edition of the same year is 27pp as opposed to 34pp; the report of the Commons Committee being added to this edition. Supporters of the make-work schemes differed in their awareness of the arguments by Malthus and others against them. Others admitted the need to avoid competing with free labour. Samuel Hill's new machine for treating flax was offered as a means of creating a new industry without competing with an old. See Poynter p. 255. Seller Inventory # 24849

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