Considerations on the necessity of taxing the annuities : granted by Parliament in the reigns of King William, and Queen Anne; and reducing one fifth of the capital stock of all persons possess'd of five thousand pounds or more in the South-Sea Company: in order to pay off the national debt, and ease trade, and the landed interest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruce, John.

Contributor:

Colwell Library of Finance and Political Economy (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Sea Company.

Annuities--Taxation--Great Britain.

Annuities.

Securities--Taxation--Great Britain.

Securities.

Debts, Public--Great Britain.

Debts, Public.

Securities--Taxation.

Annuities--Taxation.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Colwell, Stephen, 1800-1871 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

reen irle fat- meti (7) 1734 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author, and sold by Olive Payne ..., 1734.

Notes:

Published anonymously. By John Bruce. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.

With a half-title on first leaf.

Woodcut head-piece and factotum initial on p. 5.

Final page is an advertisement for books "lately published, by the same author".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy half-title wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes on t.p.

Culture Class Collection copy leaves D3 and D4 are torn and mended with tape.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the University of Pennsylvania Colwell Library of Finance and Political Economy.

Cited in:

ESTC, T88488

OCLC:

315382335