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paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The vanishingly scarce first edition of Sir Francis Burdett's discussion of the rise, progress and importance of savings banks. The first edition of this very scarce work.Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet, was a notorious proponent of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, and annual parliaments, viewed to be the premier national figure of the radical reform movement.This work presents a history of savings banks, describing the particulars of the 'earliest institutions', and 'every detail connected with their management under the late act of parliament'.Rebound in paper wraps. Faint ink inscription to front wrap head.Lacking the errata leaf, which should precede the body of the text."Together with reports and communications from more than sixty institutions in Great Britain and Ireland." Rebound in paper wraps. Small ink notation to head of front wrap, otherwise externally excellent. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking errata. Pages clean and bright, but with spot to tail of title page tail. Very Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A substantial and varied pamphlet sammelband bringing together thirteen scarce politically charged tracts on reform, taxation, and social policy, in a smart contemporary half calf binding. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards.A sammelband of thirteen mid-nineteenth century pamphlets, chiefly relating to political economy, taxation, population statistics, and ecclesiastical matters, printed between 1845 and 1846 and here bound together in a single volume.Compromising:1846 "Killing No Murder;" or, The Effects of Separate Confinement on the Bodily and Mental Condition of Prisoners in the Government Prisons and Other Gaols in Great Britain and America by Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman.1837 The Acts for Altering the Criminal Law, Passed 17th July 1837.1847 The Small Debts and Local Courts Act, for Facilitating by Easy Process the Recovery of Small Debts; Passed Augus 28, 1846. With a List of All the Towns and Districts in Which Courts are to be Held, the Rules of Practice; The Orders in Council. Passed March, 1847. And a Copious Consulting Index. Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece.1845 Sources or Means of Appropriation for the Human Creature"s Property; or, Pecuniary Possessions or Increasings, Now Offered in Lieu of the Unsound, the Unreal, National Funding System: A Letter to the Editor of The Times by James Hansard, August 16, 1845.1847 An Inquiry into the Economy, Exchange, and Distribution of Wealth by J. Mason.1847 Letter from Sir Robert to the Electors for the Borough of Tamworth by Robert Peel. Third edition.1846 A Few Words to the Agricultural Classes by "A Temple Man."[1846] The Income Tax: Its Extension at the Present Rate Proposed to All Classes; Abolishing the Malt Tax, Window Tax, and Other Taxes, with Some Observations on the Tea Duties by William Ray Smee. Second edition. Dated using jisc, from a copy held at the British Library.1846 To Landlord and Tenant Farmers. The Repeal of the Malt-Tax: and its Effect on Land, Labour, and Commerce. With an Explanation of the Art of Making Malt, and the Mode of Calculating the Duty; also a Statistical Account of the Malting Trade for the Last Hundred Years by H. Ayres.1846 The History and Power of Ecclesiastical Courts by Edward Muscutt. Fifth Thousand.1845 The Liverpool Mercury Population Tables: being an Abstract of the Census Returns of 1841; with Particulars respecting Parliamentary Representation, derived from Official Returns to the House of Commons; also a Table of the Amount of Real Property in England assessed to the Income Tax in 1815 and 1842. This copy features a large linen-backed folding table frontispiece.1845 A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter at the Triennial Visitation in June, July, and August, 1845 by Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards.Externally, smart. Slight age toning to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in minor loss to calf. Previous bookseller's discreet label to rear paste down. The odd spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot, lightly age-toned overall, with heavier toning to one or two pamphlets and to the first and last leaves of each volume. ONe inch closed tear to folding map frontispiece of "The Small Debts," at point of extension. Very Good. book.

Folio, pp. [2], lix, [1], 679, [1], [27] index; full contemporary calf, red morocco label; joints cracked, some from leftover tape stains from old repair on spine; all else very good. George Fox (1624-1691), was the founder of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. The preface is by William Penn.