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First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.
First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.
First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.
First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.

[EAST-INDIA COMPANY].

Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, to the Exclusive Trade of the Indian and China Seas; addressed to the great body of the merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdom.

London, J. Gold, 1812.

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Scarce pamphlet condemning the East-India Company's monopoly on Indian trade. By 1812 the writing was on the wall in regards to the Company's hold on trade in India: Napoleon's 'Continental System' was depriving Britain with European trade, and grain price rises and costs of labour had been reducing India's competitiveness in the global market.

Scarce, only 5 UK institutional copies (BL, Bristol, SOAS, Senate House, York).

First edition; 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm); half-title present, modern quarter red morocco, gilt rolled red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red, a fine copy; xi, 71 pp.

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First edition of Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company, a scarce attack on the East India Company's monoply.

Free Trade or, An Inquiry into the Pretensions of the Directors of the East India Company,

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