Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale or Memoirs Of Wool (Volume I only)

Description

1st edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands. 22x13x4 cm. T. Osborne. London. 1747. (8) xlii, (12), (2 errata), 422 pp. Good, ex-library. Covers heavily shelfworn, contents tight and untrimmed. “Being a collection of history and argument, concerning the woolen manufacture and woolen trade in general, particularly, the rise, progress, improvements, declensions, revolutions, and the respective causes thereof … also an account of the several laws, from time to time made, and of many schemes offered, for preventing the exportation of raw wool … with occasional notes, dissertations, and reflections upon the whole.” Volume one only. weight: 1.5 lb.