2.
Some Considerations on the national debts, the sinking fund, and the state of publick credit: in a letter to a friend in the
country . . .
London: printed for
R. Franklin,
m dcc xxix
. [1729.]
First Edition. 52 leaves including the half-title, folded table at the end; the half-title has the price,
1s. 6d.; on the recto of the last leaf is the list of errata; on the verso of
the same leaf is the notice of the
Just publish’d a State of the national debt; the folded leaf contains two tables of
A State of the national debt.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in McCulloch.
Not initialled by Jefferson.
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3. [AMHURST,
Nicholas.]
Observations on the conduct of Great-Britain, with regard to the negociations and other transactions abroad.
London: printed: and sold by
J. Roberts,
1729.
32 leaves, including 3 leaves of tables, the last a blank.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
By
Nicholas Amhurst, 1697-1742, English poet and political writer, frequently over the pseudonym Caleb d’Anvers of Gray’s Inn.
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4. [SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.]
The Craftsman extraordinary. Being remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, Observations on the conduct of Great Britain, &c.
Published by Caleb D’Anvers, Esq;
London: printed for
R. Francklin,
m dcc xxix
. [1729.]
16 leaves including the half-title (with the price,
6d.); signed at the end W. Raleigh.
Halkett and Laing I, 451.
Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke, 1678-1751. The first number of The Craftsman appeared on December 5, 1726, after the rupture between Walpole and William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, who then formed an alliance with Bolingbroke. The name Caleb D’Anvers Esq was purely imaginary, and the
Craftsman was edited by Nicholas Amhurst, with Pulteney and Bolingbroke its chief contributors. W. Raleigh is supposed to be one of the pseudonyms of Bolingbroke.
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5. [HOADLY,
Benjamin.]
A Defence of the enquiry into the reasons of the conduct of Great-Britain; &c. Occasioned by the paper published in the Country-Journal
or Craftsman on Saturday, Jan. 4, 1728-9. By the author of the Enquiry.
London: printed, and sold by
Ja. Roberts,
1729.
20 leaves.
Halkett and Laing II, 28.
See also no. 2760.
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6. [SAINT-JOHN,
Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.]
The Second Craftsman extraordinary: being farther
[
sic
--
Ed.
] remarks on a pamphlet lately publish’d, entitled, Observations on the conduct of Great Britain . . . Publish’d by Caleb D’Anvers,
Esq;
London: printed for
R. F. [R. Francklin] and sold by all booksellers, pamphlet-sellers, mercuries, and hawkers. [Price
six-pence.] n.d. [
1729.]
10 leaves including the half-title.
Halkett and Laing V, 199.
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