An Estimate of Places for Life: Shewing How Many Years Purchase...
A Gentleman's Guide to the Old Corruption Hayes, Richard. An Estimate of Places for Life: Shewing How Many Years Purchase a Place for Life is Worth. How Long a Man Must Hold His Place to Have the Value, Principal and Interest of the Purchase Money. How Much He Has Coming In Per Cent. Per Annum for His Money. What a Place for Life is Worth; The Income Not Exceeding 1000 l. Per Ann. All at One View. The Whole Being Calculated Upon the Chances of the Probabilities of Lives in General. To Which is Prefix'd, An Account of Places Which are in the Disposal of the Lord Mayor; Alderman, And Common Council of the City of London, Also of Others More Immediately Belonging to the Crown; Being Collected from the Latest and Best Lists Extant: Wherein is Shewn the Nature and Respective Business of the Principal Offers, And in Whose Gift Most of the Said Places Are. The Whole Being Interspersed with Directions and Instructions for Obtaining Places in General. By Richard Hayes, Teacher of Merchants Accounts in Great Eastcheap, Author of the New Method for Valuing Annuities Upon Lives. London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1728. [vi], 263, [1] pp. Lacking initial advertisement leaf; publisher advertisements to last page. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Nineteenth-century three-quarter calf over marbled boards, central gilt arms (of George Frederick Russell Colt) to boards, blind fillets to calf edges, gilt-edged raised bands, lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine, endpapers renewed, edges speckled green and red. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints just starting at ends, faint offsetting to free endpapers. Light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, faint dampstain to lower right corner of last ten or so leaves, brief pencil notations to foot of p. 241 and final page. A nice copy. $1,250. * Only edition. This title is of interest not only for its detailed calculations, but also as a comprehensive guide to the government job market at the time, marked by the casual exchange of potentially lucrative civil service posts in exchange for money or favors. Though An Estimate of Places for Life does not go so far as to codify this unofficial system, it does explain in detail the potential return on investment for annual salaries of various government positions. It would have been essential reading for.
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