Isbn: 9780906191064 - Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Truck System (shetland), 1872 (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. Softback. Small folio. A fair copy only as the covers are splash-marked and there is a 1.5 inch tear at the foot of the front cover and title page. Pp.viii,56. Introduction by Hance D. Smith. First published in 1872 the Report gives an interesting insight into the Shetland economy at that time and the circumstances in which barter rather than cash was the basis of business.…