Chronicon Preciosum: or, an account of English Gold and Silver Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-labour, &c. in england, for Six hundred Years last past...
London.
Printed for T. Osbourne, 1745.
Second edition.
8vo.
[10], 147, [3], 30pp, [2]. With 12 engraved plates and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, some loss to lettering-piece. Armorial bookplate of Porchester and paper shelf-labels to FEP, short marginal tear to foot of leaf B1, light dampstaining to gutter.
A revised edition of Church of England clergyman William Fleetwood's (1656-1723) landmark historical economic inquiry into the value of money, prices of corn and other commodities, and rates of salaries and wages across six centuries, first published in 1707.
ESTC T145226.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 33171
