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Title: An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People. To Which Was Adjudged the Prize Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy for the Best Dissertation on the Subject
Author: Samuel Crumpe Publisher: G. G. and J. Robinson; R. Faulder; and R. E. Mercier and Co. (Dublin) Printing Year: 1795 Second edition Condition/Details: Bound in leather, this antique volume is a a valuable essay, directed specifically at the socio-economic problems of Ireland, which analyses the causes of Irish distress. The author suggests as remedies a bounty on the exportation of corn (p.241) and a prohibition on the export of wool (p.303). Malthus (Essay on Population, book iv, ch. xi, note) records his view that Crumpe's Essay was 'an excellent treatise'. McCulloch also praised it generously: 'It is but seldom that a prize essay is worth looking into. The present, however, is an exception to the common rule, and is a really valuable publication. The author was an intelligent physician residing in Limerick. The principles which pervade the work are sound; and those parts of it which have special reference to Ireland are distinguished by the absence of prejudice, and by their practical good sense'. [Literature of Political Economy, p.284]. Front board is detached; textblock is intact and is solidly bound with age-toned pages with foxing on preliminary and final leaves. Top 2.5 inches of title page have been torn off. The book measures approximately 5.5" x 8.25" and contains xxviii, 339 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50 ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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