An ESSAY On The PUBLICK DEBTS Of This KINGDOM. Wherein the Importance of Discharging Them is Considered; the Provisions for that Purpose by the Sinking Fund, and the Progress Therein Hitherto Made, are Stated and Explained; the Sufficiency of those Provisions are Demonstrated; Some General Mistakes about the Nature and Efficacy of this Expedient Examined and Removed; and the Progress of the Sinking Fund Described and Computed from Midsummer, 1727.; To which is Subjoined, An Enquiry into the General Convenience of Reducing Farther the Interest of our Publick Debts below 4 per Cent. per Annum. In a letter to a member of the House of Commons.
London: Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's-Head in Pater-noster-Row, 1726. 1st printing (Goldsmith 6473). viii, 120 pp. Headpiece & decorative initial capital letter, A2r; tailpice A4v; headpiece & decorative initial capital letter, B1r. 8vo. Disbound, with binding remnants along spine. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Gould a successful..... More