Rare! Essay on The Causes of The Decline of Foreign Trade 1756

Matthew Decker (Richardson, W.) Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade, Consequently of the Value of the Lands of Britain and on the Means to Restore Both. Edinburgh, 1756. 16mo full brown calf, later printing. Lacking frontis and spine label, tips rubbed, joints started, text is clean with no foxing. Good condition. Matthew Decker was the archetype Free Trader advocating extreme economic lasissez faire. With amorial bookplate of Honourable John Hat of Lawfield ("Spare Nought") in which John is overwritten with W. This work has been attributed to W. Richardson, but internal evidence is strongly in favor of Decker's authorship.