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CRUMPE, SAMUEL. An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People. To which was adjudged the Prize proposed by the Royal Irish

CRUMPE, SAMUEL. An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People. To which was adjudged the Prize proposed by the Royal Irish Academy. xxxii, 365, [2] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. 8vo, modern cloth; scattered light foxing, institutional stamp on title. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson et al., 1793

  • Notes: first london edition, published the same year as the Dublin original. "A valuable essay directed specifically to the problems of Ireland. Samuel Crumpe (1766-1796) was an Irish physician. He ably analysed the causes of Irish distress and suggested as remedies a bounty on the exportation of corn (p. 241) and a prohibition on the export of wood (p. 303)"--Amex Bank 114.

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