![Item #239565 Essays upon I. The Ballance [sic] of Power. II. The Right of Making War, Peace & Alliances. III. Universal Monarchy. To which is added, An Appendix Containing the Records Referr’d to in the Second Essay. Charles Davenant.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/239565.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1396505569)
English Mercantilism
Essays upon I. The Ballance [sic] of Power. II. The Right of Making War, Peace & Alliances. III. Universal Monarchy. To which is added, An Appendix Containing the Records Referr’d to in the Second Essay.
London: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1701.
Price: $650.00
About the item
First edition. [iv], 101, [1] blank; 127-237, [3], 233-288 [=300, pp. 295-300 misnumbered 281-288], [4], 125 pp. English Mercantilism. Contemporary panelled calf, old rebacking, front joint cracked but cords barely holding, spine dry and worn, as are covers which are generally scuffed. Bookplate of “Sir Simon Harcourt of Stanton ... Her Majesty's Solicitor General 1702,” pasted to the verso of title leaf. Text clean and margins generous. Kress 2285.
Item #239565
Charles Davenant (1656-1714), government oficial, Parliamentarian, and political economist, was the son of the poet William Davenant, and the author of nume3rous owrks on economic theory, as well as this foray into international Relations. “The clarity of Davenant's thinking, the powerful organization of his writing, the ability to assimilate the best of the ideas of others, and his (rather rarely exercised) capacity to judge from beyond the fray gave his voice and his writing some authority. But he was no original thinker and his natural capacities were those of the able administrator …”
With a superb profenance: Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, PC (c. 1661 - July 23, 1727), was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He became Solicitor-General in 1702, and was knighted in the same year. He was a friend of Swift, Pope and Prior.
