Book #74647
Item #74647 Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers. Alexander Hamilton, clipped Hamilton signature.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.. on the Subject Manufacturers

With a Tipped-In Alexander Hamilton Signature Hamilton, Alexander [1757-1804]. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, [Alexander Hamilton,] On the Subject of Manufactures, Made the Fifth of December, 1791. Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R.A. Skerrett, Jan. 1, 1824. vii, [9]-143 pp. 12mo. (6-1/4" x 4"). Stiff printed boards, deckle edges. Soiled and moderately worn, boards detached, text block secure. Moderate toning to interior, somewhat heavier in places, full signature of Alexander Hamilton, clipped from a Treasury document, tipped-in to front free endpaper. Housed in recent clamshell box, quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, blind fillets and gilt publication date to spine. $3,000. * Later printing. Howes refers to this work as "one of the great American state papers, 'the Magna Carta of industrial America.' Submitted to Congress in 1791, it outlined a system of economic principles and proposed a series of legislative actions to encourage American industry. Subsequent printings were issued in Dublin in 1792, London in 1793 and Washington, DC in 1809 and at other times over the 1800s, usually to influence current opinion. The 1824 printed was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures, a group founded in 1787 that favored protective the types of legislation actions proposed by Hamilton. It was probably issued to increase support for the Tariff of 1824, which was designed to protect American industry by increasing the cost of imported British goods. Howes, USIana H123. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 29977. Reese, The Federal Hundred 38.

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