Report on the Fire Insurance Duties, 1857; Together with the Revised Report on Fire Insurance Duties, 1863.

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1857-63, 1857

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The two Blue Books by George Coode are bound together with: 1. The History of Fire Insurance Duties. [Cutting from The News, hostile to Coode]. 2. The Fire Insurance Duty! History of the agitation for abolition or reduction, and reply to Mr George Coode's Blue-Book revised report, showing the Duty to be bad in principle. Issued by The Association for the Abolition or Reduction of the Duty on Fire Insurance, 1863. 3. The Duty on Fire Insurances erroneous in principle, and injurious in practice. By H. Riseborough Sharman. Issued by the AARDFI; G.J. Stevenson, (1860). 4. On the Progress of Fire Insurance in Great Britain, as compared with other countries. By Samuel Brown [Read before the Statistical Society, 21st April 1857.] Extracted, pp.135-168. Six items bound into one volume, half maroon roan; rubbed. Small stamp of the Sun Fire Office Library. Coode, in his revised report, addressed to Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, admits to an error in his first report 'which led to an extensive mis-statement of the effect of the Taxation. and seriously affected the most important argument in the report'. However, he does not change his basic position in supporting the continuation of the stamp duty, a view challenged in the subsequent pamphlets in this volume.…

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Title
Report on the Fire Insurance Duties, 1857; Together with the Revised Report on Fire Insurance Duties, 1863.
Author
COODE, George.
Publisher
Eyre & Spottiswoode for HMSO. 1857-63
Publication year
1857
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ABA, ILAB & PBFA member. Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers have been selling 18th & 19th Century English books, especially first editions of English Literature and Social History since 1969 and are world leading specialists in Dickens. Our premises are opposite the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London. We publish between 4 and 6 major catalogues per annum. As traditional and professional booksellers, we prefer to develop a personal relationship with collectors - and customers via the internet.…

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