Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality : with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city : non, me ut miretur turba, laboro, contentus paucis lectoribus / by John Graunt, citizen of London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graunt, John, 1620-1674, author.

Contributor:

Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687, dubious author.

Roycroft, Thomas, -1677, printer.

Martyn, John, active 1649-1680, publisher.

Allestry, James, -1670, publisher.

Dicas, Thomas, -1669, publisher.

Radnor, John Robartes, Earl of, 1606-1685, dedicatee.

Moray, Robert, 1608-1673, dedicatee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Statistics, Vital--Early works to 1800.

London (England).

Mortality--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Mortality.

England--London.

Genre:

Vital statistics.

Physical Description:

[16], 85, [3] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London, : Printed by Tho. Roycroft, for John Martin, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas, at the Sign of the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCLXII. (1662)

Notes:

Signatures: A, a, B-L, [M].

By some authorities the authorship has been attributed to Sir William Petty. For a full account of the editions and the arguments for and against Graunt's authorship see C.H. Hull's introduction to his edition of "The economic writings of Sir William Petty", Cambridge, 1899.

There were two dedicatory letters, one to Right Honourable John Lord Robartes and the second to, Sir Robert Moray.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Kislak Center copy wanting: missing fold out plates, pages 83-85 and advertising pages; otherwise legible copy; register will be inconsistent with signature statement. Marbled hard back binding, spine with black tape and handwritten title.

Cited in:

Wing, G-1599

Kress Library, 1094

Goldsmiths' Library catalog, 1664

OCLC:

64756767