First Edition. 4to. 38 leaves including the half-title, list of errata, and printer’s imprint at the end.
For other works by Charpentier de Cossigny see the Index.
Le Manuel du Commerce par P. Blancard
was first published in Paris in 1803, in folio.
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15
Discourse on trade & coins
p 8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 78, as above.
POLLEXFEN,
John.
A Discourse of Trade, Coyn, and Paper Credit: and of Ways and Means to gain, and retain Riches. To which is added the Argument
of a Learned Counsel, upon an action of the Case brought by the East-India-Company against M
r Sands an Interloper.
London: Printed for
Brabazon Aylmer,
1697.
First Edition. 8vo. 2 parts in 1, 88 and 40 leaves, with separate titles, signatures and pagination, the title for the Argument
dated 1696. No copy was seen for collation.
The Short-Title Catalogue, no. P2777A, reports an earlier issue, without name of printer, the imprint reading Printed 1697, 1 copy only (Massachusetts Historical Society).
Hazlitt III, 198.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 959.
John Pollexfen, fl. 1697, English economic writer, was a member of the committee of trade and plantations in 1675 and of the board of trade
from 1696-1705.
The author of the
Argument of a Learned Counsel
was John Pollexfen’s brother, Sir Henry Pollexfen, who was counsel for Sandys when sued for infringing the monopoly of the East Indian Company.
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J. 16
Pettus on trade.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 79, as above.
P[OLLEXFEN], J[
ohn].
Of Trade 1. In General. 2. In Particular. 3. Domestick. 4. Foreign. 5. The East-India. 6. The African. 7. The Turky. 8. The
Spanish. 9. The Hamburgh. 10. The Portugal. 11. The Italian. 12. The Dutch. 13. The Russia. 14. The Greenland. 15. The Swedeland.
16. The Denmark. 17. The Irish. 18. The Scotland. 19. The Plantation. 20. The French, &c. Also, Of Coyn. Bullion. Of Improving
our Woollen Manufacture. To prevent Exporting Wooll. Of Ways and Means to Increase our Riches, &c. By J. P. Esq; To which is annex’d, The Argument of the late Lord Chief Justice Pollexphen, upon an Action of the Case, brought by the East-India Company against Mr. Sands an Interloper.
London: Printed for
John Baker,
1700.
HF3505.4 .P51
8vo. 2 parts in 1, 88 and 40 leaves, with separate signatures and pagination, title for The Argument for a Learned Counsel,
with
Aylmer’s 1696 imprint, and 3 pages of books printed for
B. Aylmer at the end; list of errata to Of Trade on A
4 verso. The running headlines for the first part read:
A Discourse of /
Trade and Coyn.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
This edition not in the
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Not in McCulloch.
Palgrave III, page 150.
STC P2780.
Calf, a red leather label on the back lettered in gold:
Pettus /
on Trade. /
Pollefen’s /
Arguments /. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. Beside the author’s initials in the title is written in ink
J. Pettus (not by Jefferson). The autograph signature of
John Wayles in pencil at the head of the title.
The erroneous attribution to Sir John Pettus was made apparently before the book came into the hands of Jefferson.
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