An inquiry concerning the rise and progress, the redemption and present state, and the management of the national debt of great britain.
Edinburgh.
Printed for Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes, 1813.
First edition.
8vo.
v, [3], 212pp. Contemporary calf, later rebacked, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Boards rubbed and marked. Bookplate of Thomas Richardson, Writer to the Signet, to FEP, scattered spotting.
The first edition of political economist and mathematician Robert Hamilton's (1743-1829) attack upon the prevailing views of national finance, demonstrating that the creation of a sinking fund, as favoured by Pitt, would increase, rather than decrease, the national debt.
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 28964
