The Late Excise Scheme Dissected, Or, An Exact Copy of the Late Bill..
"Designed as a New Year's Gift" [Taxation]. [Great Britain]. [Erskine, James, Lord Grange (1679-1754), Attributed]. The Late Excise Scheme Dissected, Or, An Exact Copy of the Late Bill for Repealing Several subsidies, And an Impost, Now payable on Tobacco, &c. With All the Blanks Filled Up, As They Probably Would Have Been, If the Bill Had Passed Into a Law; And Proper Observations on Each Paragraph. Together With an Introduction Explaining the Nature of Our Constitution, And the Methods by Which it May be Overturned. N. B. This Pamphlet is Designed as a New Year's Gift, Proper to be Presented by All Honest Candidates to Their Electors. London: Printed for J. Dickenson, In Witch-Street, 1734. v, 80, 89-90 pp. Octavo (7" x 4-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet, "(6)" in early hand to upper outside corner of title page. Moderate toning, head of text block trimmed with loss to head lines and first line of text on title page, light soiling to exterior light edgewear to title page, which is beginning to detach at foot. $350. * Only edition, one of two issues from 1734. An attack on Walpole's proposed Excise Bill of 1734, which taxed a variety of consumer products. Hostility to this bill was fervent because it authorized revenue officers to search private homes for contraband untaxed merchandise. The ESTC notes this pamphlet is sometimes attributed to two political opponents: James Erskine, Lord Grange [1679-1754] and William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath [1684-1764]. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) N10281.
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