The trades increase

By

Kayll, Robert.

Melo-Costa, Wanessa de

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Walter Burre, 1615

Notes

Preface, p. [3-5], 1st count, signed: I.R.

Written by Robert Kayll and wrongly ascribed to John Roberts. Cf. William Foster, the author of "The trades increase" in London times literary supplement, March 29, 1934, p. 229 and also E. Lipson, The economic history of England, 1931, v. 2, p. 279.

Concerning fisheries, especially the Atlantic herring fishery; also concerns competion with the United Provinces of the Netherlands for the same commodities and the East India Company's monopoly on trade.

There are three variants in which the text has been reset; in this issue, the catchword on p. 5 reads "new" without a comma.

Signatures: A-H⁴ (-A4) (A2, A3 versos blank)

Errors in paging: p. 42 is misnumbered 43; p. 43 is misnumbered 42.

Woodcut head pieces; initials.

Arents Tobacco Collection. Tobacco: a catalogue, | 167.

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, | I:439.

Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, | 347.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), | 14894.8.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, | II: p. 109.

European Americana, | 615/74.

English short title catalogue, | S4728.

Subjects

Atlantic herring fisheries , Commerce , Commercial policy , East India Company , Fisheries , Great Britain , Imprint 1615 , Netherlands

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 1002064363