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The chimera, or, The French way of paying national debts laid open : being an impartial account of the proceedings in France for raising a paper credit and settling the Mississipi stock.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compagnie des Indes.
- Debts, Public--France--Early works to 1800.
- Debts, Public.
- Finance, Public--France--History--To 1789.
- Finance, Public.
- France.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 76 pages, 68 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Chimera
- French way of paying national debts laid open
- Fingerprint:
- heot ngin tse, Stof (3) 1720 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Warner ..., 1720.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. Attributed to Daniel Defoe. Cf. ESTC.
- Price from title-page: "price one shilling."
- Text continuous despite pagination irregularity.
- Signatures: pi1 A-H⁴ I².
- Woodcut headpiece; factotum initial on p.1.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy wormed.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T56874
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 5741
- Moore, J.R. Checklist of the writings of Daniel Defoe, 426
- OCLC:
- 297527730
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