An examination and explanation of the South-Sea Company's scheme, for taking in the publick debts : shewing, that it is not encouraging to those who shall become proprietors of the engrafted stock, to join with the present proprietors of the company, at any advanced price : and that it is against the interest of those proprietors, who shall remain with their stock till they are paid off by the Government, that the company should make annually greater dividends than their profits will warrant : with some national considerations and useful observations.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Sea Company.

Debts, Public--Great Britain.

Debts, Public.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

38 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second editon.

Fingerprint:

l.a- s)nd chn. this (3) 1720 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed, and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1720.

Notes:

Published anonymously. Sometimes attributed to John Trenchard. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A-E⁴.

Price from imprint: "price six-pence."

Woodcut headpiece and factotum initial.

With a final leaf of advertisement for "A Farther examination of the South-Sea Company's scheme ...."

Cited in:

ESTC, T59687

Goldsmiths', 5752

Hanson, 2780n

OCLC:

7592990