Author: Richard Heathfield
Title: Elements of a Plan for the Liquidation of the Public Debt of the United Kingdom; Being the Draught of a Declaration, Submitted to the Attention of the Landed, Funded, and Every Other Description of Proprietor, of the United Kingdom
Description: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Disbound. A very scarce nineteenth-century pamphlet discussing a plan for the liquidation of public debt in the United Kingdom. An early edition of this very scarce work, disbound but internally firmly bound and intact. In this very scarce pamphlet, Richard Heathfield proposes a plan for the liquidation of public debt in the United Kingdom. From 1815 until 1821, the government sought to move from a wartime economy to peacetime economy. This was a struggle, due to the enormous government debts accumulated over the course of the Napoleonic Wars. This pamphlet gives an insight into the significant financial development of Britain in the early nineteenth century. Complete with the folding plate. Disbound but internally firmly bound and intact. Externally, generally smart, with the odd spot to the first page and last page, and remnants of the backstrip to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Debt Economics British history Economics Not Stated


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