The British merchant; or, Commerce preserv'd : in three volumes /

Title vignettes; head- and tailpieces; initials.Includes the Treaty of Utrecht in Latin and English on opposite pages (v. 1 p. 42-129)Includes index.The most important numbers of the British merchant, a periodical which appeared twice a week during the summer of 1713, at the time of the proposed treaty of commerce with France, collected and edited by Charles King. The object of the paper was to refute the reciprocity arguments propounded by Defoe in favor of the treaty in his "Mercator, or, Commerce retrieved". Cf. DNB, v. 31, p. 124.Title page for v. 3 omits alternative title or statement of responsibility; title page for v. 2 omits statement of responsibility.HansonMode of access: Internet