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8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. [2] + xxviii + 418 pp. + 106 pp. appendices. Includes facsimile of original title page of Second Edition, Longman, 1823. Bound in brown buckram, gilt, spine with contrasting red title, gilt. A fine copy. Illustrated by tables in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Facsimile reprint of the enlarged second edition of a classic survey of economic policy and conditions in England. The first edition was published 1822. The most notable work of the Scottish political economist, Joseph Lowe (d.1831). He was a pioneer of the use of statistical data and of the use of index numbers; analysis of the British war economy being highly regarded.