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[004092] Onely, Richard. An Account of the Care Taken in Most Civilized Nations for the Relief of the Poor, More Particularly in Times of Scarcity and Distress. London: For the Author, and Sold By George Hawkins at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet Street, 1758. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Pamphlet. Good+. [7], 2-34pp. Modern quarter cloth and marbled paper over boards, title label to upper cover

Externally very good, internally title is slightly browned, one or two spots of foxing to margins, last couple of leaves lightly foxed, but generally quite bright and clean

Printed by William Bowyer

Mainly concerned with the price of corn and bread, an attempt towards the “speedier relief of the poor, from the hand of the extortioner and oppressor”

Goldsmiths 9413; Higgs 1815