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KING, Charles.
The British Merchant;
or, Commerce Preserv'd. In Three Volumes.
The British Merchant was a periodical published in 1713–14, at the end of the War of Spanish Succession, in opposition to proposed treaties to reduce the duties on French imports, and in response to Daniel Defoe's Mercator, which supported the treatises. The Macclesfield copy: the subscribers' list includes the Rt. Hon. Thomas Lord Parker, then lord chancellor, who was created first Earl of Macclesfield in the year of publication.
3 volumes, octavo (229 × 139 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments, brown morocco labels, sides with double gilt rules, red sprinkled edges. Engraved bookplates and blindstamps of the Shirburn Castle library of the Earls of Macclesfield. Spines rubbed, the gilt worn in places, but an excellent copy.
