Old calf. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Not initialled by Jefferson who has written what appear to be binding
instructions, now partly cut away, on the title-page. The word
boards is still readable, and the preceding word may be
full. On the title-page John B. Cutting has signed his name, and has written:
By Lord Hawksbury. Inserted at the beginning is one leaf of an autograph letter relative to this book but not to this copy.
Other works by Charles Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, afterwards Earl of Liverpool, appear in this catalogue. At the time this
was written he was President of the Board of Trade and as a result of this publication a change was made in the Corn laws
in the ensuing year.
John B. Cutting spent some years in London and in Europe, and during 1790 was in constant correspondence with Jefferson from London. In a
letter to him written on March 20 (the month, according to the anonymous inserted letter, that this report was made), Cutting
described the author as “
that same Lord Hawkesbury who is the commercial minister and dictates all measures relevant to the United States.”
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J. 36
Political tracts. English. on the corn laws.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 188, Political Tracts, 1786-92, 8vo.
Six tracts bound together in one volume 8vo., old half binding, with later labels on the back lettered
Political /
Pamphlets, /
Vol. 30. / listed by Jefferson (with one omission) in ink on the fly-leaf (numbered in another hand): [punct.
sic--
Ed.]
JA36 .P8 Vol. 30
Political tracts. viz.
1.
Thoughts on the corn bill.
1786.
2.
Corrie’s Considñs on the Corn Laws.
1791.
3.
S
r. John Sinclair’s Address on the Corn bill.
4.
---------‘s Statistical acc
t. of Scotland.
5.
the same in French.
The tracts numbered serially on the title-pages in ink. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
1.
Thoughts on the corn bill.
1786.
Thoughts upon a Bill, lately offered to Parliament, for regulating the export and import of Corn: with observations upon Dean
Tucker’s Reflections, So far as they relate to this Subject. By a Country Gentleman . . .
London: Printed for
J. Pridden,
m.dcc.lxxxvi
. [1786.]
20 leaves, including the half-title (with the price,
one Shilling), and the last blank.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in McCulloch.
A number of the works of Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester and economist, appear in this catalogue. See the Index.
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2.
Corrie’s Considñs on the Corn laws.
1791.
[CORRIE,
Edgar.]
Considerations on the Corn Laws, with Remarks on the Observations of Lord Sheffield on the Corn Bill, which was printed by
Order of the House of Commons in December, 1790.
London: Printed for
John Stockdale,
m.dcc.xci
. [1791]
36 leaves, plus 2 leaves of Appendix, one folded.
Halkett and Laing I, 414.
On the half-title Jefferson has written in ink the name of the author:
by m(
~
r)
Corrie. (The author’s name written on the title-page is not by Jefferson.)
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3.
S
r. John Sinclair’s Address on the Corn bill.
SINCLAIR,
Sir John.
Address to the Landed Interest, on the Corn Bill now depending in Parliament. By Sir John Sinclair Baronet, M.P.
London: Printed for
T. Cadell,
mdccxci
. [1791.]
