40 leaves of text followed by 8 leaves, numbered 1-16, of publisher’s advertisements dated April, 1801; advertisement on the
back of the title; margins cut close and one leaf of table folded and repaired.
Not in McCulloch.
Palgrave II, page 820.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
William Morgan, 1750-1833, actuary, a nephew of Richard Price, was one of the pioneers of life assurance in England and for a long period
of his life was the chief actuary of the Equitable Assurance Society in London. Morgan was a friend of Horne Tooke, Thomas
Paine, Samuel Rogers, and other republicans.
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7.
Boyd’s letter to Pitt.
BOYD,
Walter.
A letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, on the influence of the stoppage of issues in specie at the Bank of England,
on the prices of provisions, and other commodities. The
second edition, with additional notes; and a preface, containing remarks on the publication of Sir Francis Baring, Bart . . . By
Walter Boyd, Esq. M. P.
London: printed for
J. Wright; and
J. Mawman, by
T. Gillet,
1801. [Price
five shillings.]
3 parts in 1 with separate signatures and pagination: i. Preface to the first edition, 28 leaves; ii. text, 44 leaves; iii.
Appendix, 24 leaves. 96 leaves in all.
Watt I, 142 (first edition only).
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Sent to Jefferson by the author who wrote from London on April 28, 1801: “. . . I have taken the liberty to send by this conveyance a few Copies of a Pamphlet which I have published lately on the
present state of the Circulation of this country . . .”
Walter Boyd, 1754?-1837, English financier. This tract, of which the first edition was published in the same year, was called forth by
a pamphlet on the effect of the suspension of cash payments in 1797.
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