An Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles [with] Methodical Arrangement.

Kyd, Stewart

Publication Date: 1799

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Rare English Treatise on Taxation Kyd, Stewart [d. 1811]. Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles, Of All the Provisions of the Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Assessed Taxes. London: Printed For, And Sold By, Butterworth, Hurst, And Pheney [et al.], 1799. [ii], 9, [1], 288 pp. Lacking 4 pp. publisher advertisement that follows p. [ii]; bound instead at rear of following title. [Bound with] [Kyd, Stewart]. Methodical Arrangement of an Act, Passed 39 Geo. III. C. 13, Entitled, An Act to Repeal the Duties Imposed by an Act, Made in the Last Session of Parliament, For Granting an Aid and Contribution for the Prosecution of the War, And to Make More Effectual Provision for the Like Purpose, By Granting Certain Duties Upon Income, In Lieu of the Said Duties. (9th Jan. 1799.) [Caption Title]. [London?: s.n., 1799 or 1800]. [3]-114, [2], 4 pp. Like many copies, as noted by the ESTC, issued without title page. Publisher advertisement intended for Arrangement bound at end of text. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Recent cloth, gilt title to spine, untrimmed edges, endpapers renewed. Negligible light rubbing and a few small faint stains, light fading to spine and head of front board. Moderate toning to interior, light soiling to title page. $1,000. * First edition. Kyd, a Scottish lawyer and radical politician, was a well-respected writer of treatises on commercial law. "In June 1797 he [Kyd] ably defended Thomas Williams, a bookseller, who was indicted for blasphemy in publishing Thomas Paine's Age of Reason." Oxford DNB. Arrangement is a fascinating overview of the various forms of personal taxation in Great Britain at the beginning of the nineteenth century. A second, enlarged edition appeared in 1801. Methodical Arrangement is an explication of one of several income tax acts passed in 1799. The ESTC considers this work, possibly an expansion of Kyd's The Substance of the Income Act (1799), bibliographically distinct, but it appears in a similar or identical form in other copies of the first edition of Arrangement, all without title pages, that we have seen. (The ESTC record for this work shows that it does not have a title page.) Both editions of Arrangement are rare. OCLC locates 3 copies worldwide of the first edition (British Library, Library of Congr.

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• Title: An Arrangement, Under Distinct Titles [with] Methodical Arrangement.
• Publication Date: 1799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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