Petty, Sir William. IMPORTANT SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF "VERBUM SAPIENTI", PETTY'S GROUND-BREAKING TREATISE ON TAXATION AND THE WEALTH OF THE NATION a scribal copy of an early version of the opening chapters of the essay, written in c.1664 but published only posthumously in 1691, in 19 numbered paragraphs, in which Petty outlines the extent of the value of the labour and production of the six million inhabitants of England in the 1660s, and explaining how this potential tax base eclipses the value of land and property, the manuscript inscribed at the top of the first page "For Capt[ai]n Graunt", endorsed on the outer panel ("A paper proposing a way for the more equall distribucion of the monthly taxe by estimating the nations vallue &c."), 5 pages, plus blanks, folio, comprising 4 bifolia secured with an iron pin, probably 1660s to 1680s, a few small stains, a few wormholes, some dustmarking to outer leaves
Petty, Sir William. IMPORTANT SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF "VERBUM SAPIENTI", PETTY'S GROUND-BREAKING TREATISE ON TAXATION AND THE WEALTH OF THE NATION a scribal copy of an early version of the opening chapters of the essay, written in c.1664 but published only posthumously in 1691, in 19 numbered paragraphs, in which Petty outlines the extent of the value of the labour and production of the six million inhabitants of England in the 1660s, and explaining how this potential tax base eclipses the value of land and property, the manuscript inscribed at the top of the first page "For Capt[ai]n Graunt", endorsed on the outer panel ("A paper proposing a way for the more equall distribucion of the monthly taxe by estimating the nations vallue &c."), 5 pages, plus blanks, folio, comprising 4 bifolia secured with an iron pin, probably 1660s to 1680s, a few small stains, a few wormholes, some dustmarking to outer leaves
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