A Discourse of Money. Being an Essay on that Subject, Historically and Politically Handled. With Reflections on the Present Evil State of the Coin of this Kingdom; and Proposals of a Method for the Remedy. In a Letter to a Nobleman, &c.
London: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1696.
"An Important Contribution to the Theory of Money
by an Early Pioneer of Mathematical Economics."
[BRISCOE, John]. A Discourse of Money. Being an Essay on that Subject, Historically and Politically Handled. With Reflections on the Present Evil State of the Coin of this Kingdom; and Proposals of a Method for the Remedy. In a Letter to a Nobleman, &c. London, Printed for Sam. Briscoe, 1696.
First edition. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/8 inches; 181 x 112mm). [4], 192, 183-198, 197-204 pp. Pagination errors, but text is complete and continuous. Title in a double-ruled border. Full contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Boards double ruled in blind with floral corner devices. Edges speckled red. Corners rubbed and bumped. Some occasional dampstaining. Two small closed tears at center of leaf A2. Previous owner, William Brabazon's bookplate on front pastedown. An early and almost invisible library stamp on front free endpaper. Overall very good.
"John Briscoe ranks second to H. Chamberlin among the projectors of land banks who flourished in the latter part of the 17th century. " (Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, pg 179).
"The National Land Bank was founded by John Briscoe in 1695. The Bank went on to be known as the National Land Bank of England after a merger in 1696 with the Land Bank founded by John Asgill and Dr. Nicholas Barbon." (The Senate House Archives, University of London).
"The equation of exchange both as a classification scheme and as a building block for the quantity theory of money can be traced back to the earliest development of economic science. The pre-classical writers of the 17th and 18th centuries viewed the equation in both senses. Locke (1691), Hume (1752) and Cantillon (1735) each organized his approach to monetary issues using the equation...Algebraic versions of the equation first appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries. The British writers Briscoe (1694) and Lloyd (1771) both expressed a rudimentary version of the equation." (The New Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, pg 12).
ESTC R213093. Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress.
HBS 68299.
$3,000.
Price: $3,000.00
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