tourney Generall.
London: printed by
S. G. for
Henry Twyford, and
Rich. Marriot,
1656.
HJ2612 .D2
First Edition. 8vo. 92 leaves, list of books printed for
Henry Twyford and partners on the last leaf.
STC D407.
Lowndes II, 600.
Old sheep; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Sir John Davies, 1569-1626, English poet, attorney and member of Parliament, was for a time Attorney-General for Ireland. This is the first
edition of this work, published thirty years after his death.
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Stevens’s history of taxes.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 358, as above,
8vo.
STEVENS,
John.
The Royal Treasury of England: or, a general history of taxes, from the Conquest to the present time. Collected from the best
antient and modern historians; as likewise from many valuable manuscripts in the Cotton, and other libraries; as well as from
some peculiar offices in this Kingdom. Shewing when the Crown was supplied, and impositions laid on the people, only by virtue
of the King’s prerogative; at what time the House of Lords alone has done the same; and when reduced to the parliamentary
method now establish’d. The whole intermixt with divers remarkable occurrences; and a considerable number of particulars,
which have not hitherto appear’d in print. By the late Capt. John Stevens. The
second edition; with a continuation to the end of the last reign.
London: printed for
Tho. Tebb, and
J. Jackson,
m.dcc.xxviii
. [1728.]
HJ2603 .S8
8vo. 204 leaves.
Tebb’s advertisement at the end.
Not in the
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Not in Gillow.
Original calf, gilt back, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
John Stevens, d. 1726, English scholar and antiquary, is chiefly known for his translations from the Spanish. The first edition of this
work was published by Tebb and Wilcox in 1725.
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Davenant’s reports on the public acc
(
~t
)s.
1711.
1815 Catalogue, page 96. no. 359, Devenant’s reports on the public accounts, 1711, 8vo.
DAVENANT,
Charles.
A Report [--A second report] to the Honourable the Commissioners for putting in execution the act, intitled, An Act, for the
taking, examining, and stating the publick accounts of the Kingdom. From Charles Davenant. L. L. D. Inspector General of the exports and imports. Part I [-II].
London: printed in the year,
1712. (Price stitch’d,
2 s.)
HF3505.6 .A2
First Edition. 8vo. 40 and 40 leaves, half-title to the first part, separate titles, signatures and pagination. On the title to
the second part Davenant is described as Inspector General of the Exports and Imports of the trade between England and Holland.
Not in Lowndes or the
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Not in McCulloch.
Palgrave I, 484.
Rebound in half red morocco; not initialled by Jefferson; numerous marginal corrections in ink. With the autograph signature
of T. H. Corbin on the half-title. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
For another tract by Davenant, see no. 2953 above.
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