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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Prospect Before us | Being a Series of Papers Upon the Great Question which now Agitates the Public Mind | Dennis O'Bryen | Taschenbuch | 112 S. | Englisch | 2018 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337432263 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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First Edition. Defoe's "Universal Plan of Commerce" [DEFOE, Daniel]. A Plan of the English Commerce. Being a Compleat Prospect of The Trade of this Nation, as well the Home Trade as the Foreign. In Three Parts. Part I. Containing a View of the present Magnitude of the English Trade, as it respects, 1. The Exportation of our Own Growth and Manufacture. 2. The Importation of Merchants Goods from Abroad. 3. The prodigious Consumption of both at Home. Part II. Containing an Answer to that great and important Question now depending, Whether our Trade, and Especially our Manufactures, are in a declining Condition, or no? Part III. Containing several Proposals entirely New, for Extending and Improving our Trade, and Promoting the Consumption of our Manufactures, in Countries wherewith we have Hitherto had no Commerce.London: Printed for Charles Rivington, 1728. First edition. Octavo. xvi, [6, contents], [2, ads], 368 pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Early nineteenth-century calf by J. Mackenzie, neatly rebacked to style. Gilt single-rule border on covers, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in blind, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Ink stamp of the Devon & Exeter Institution on verso of title. Lending library label of the Devon and Exeter Institution on front pastedown. An excellent copy. Very scarce. Housed in a full morocco clamshell case. In this work, Defoe contends that the several branches of trade and commerce, from the cottage manufacturer to the merchant, were largely unaware of each other. He proposes a scheme to join these differing branches into a "universal plan of commerce." "The Commerce of the World, especially as it is now carried on, is an unbounded Ocean of Business; Trackless and unkown, like the Seas it is managed upon; the Merchant is no more to be follow'd in his Adventures, than a Maze or Labyrinth is to be trac'd out without a Clue" (p. vii). He concludes with a plea for colonial expansion: "More Colonies then is, without Question, extending the Commerce; it is enlarging the Field of Action; it calls in more Hands to assist in the Publick Prosperity; it employs profitably the unprofitable Numbers of your Poor, and lays a Foundation of an extended Trade, and thereby of a still larger Exportation from Home" (p. 366). "This work is full of information.It is ably written, and contains sundry passages in which the influence of trade and industry in promoting the well-bein of the labouring classes and the public wealth is set in the most striking point of view" (McCulloch, p. 45).Goldsmiths' 6594. Kress 3744. Moore 499. Sabin 19289. HBS66823. $6,500.

Disbound. Zustand: Fair. None (illustrator). Very scarce pamphlet concerned with the prospect of a regency. The third edition of this work. ESTC T125879. Published anonymously, attributed to Denis O'Bryen, Irish surgeon, dramatist, and political writer. A very scarce pamphlet written in support of the Whigs in the Regency crisis of 1788. Rarely seen in commerce in any edition.Works by O'Bryen include: A gleam of comfort to this distracted empire, demonstrating the fairness and reasonableness of national confidence in the present ministrymeaning the ministry of Pitt (1784); A View of the Commercial Treaty with France (1786); Lines Written at Twickenham (1788), followed in the same year by the anonymously published The Prospect Before Us, being a series of papers upon the great question which now agitates the public mind, which was reproduced under the title The Regency Question with a new preface, in consequence of the return of the king's insanity in 1810. In 1796 he published Utrum horum The Government or the Country which rapidly passed through three editions.O'Bryen's political writings reflected his activism as a supporter of the Fox administration. Unbound. Binding tender with title page; advertisement to p. 6; p 7-40; 41-2; 43-46; and 47-66 loose but present. More leaves may detach with further handling. Light spotting scattered to leaves, which are lightly browned due to type of paper used Fair. book.

First edition of this prescient programme for English trade, among the most globally orientated of Defoe's economic writings. Coming near the end of his life, the Plan reprises Defoe's lifelong approach to trade and his recognition of its significance for the British nation. In the 1720s, Defoe used his writing to outline an astonishingly detailed plan for British development. The plan focused on establishing British dominance in trade, with London as the hub through which the world's commerce would flow. The Plan fits into this scheme by outlining the global economic framework for this dominance, including several projects for developing trading networks with Africa and colonial America. ESTC T70838; Furbank and Owens 244; Goldsmiths' 6594; Moore 499; Kress, 3744; Sabin 63293. John Richetti, The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography, 2005. Octavo (187 x 120 mm), pp. xvi, [8], 368. Wood-engraved head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. Late 19th-century crushed red morocco, spins ruled and decorated in gilt and with twin dark green morocco labels, covers panelled and with cornerpieces in gilt, turn-ins in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges marbled and gilt. Light sunning to extremities, minimal foxing to contents, otherwise crisp: a very good copy indeed.