COMMONWEALTH TARIFF 1657 MERCHANDIZE VALUE Cromwell Act EXCISE COST DUTY TAX
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:7059052 | Year Printed: 1657 |
Publisher: HENRY HILLS & JOHN FIELDS | Language: English |
Place of Publication: LONDON |
IMPORTEDAccording to which, EXCIZE is to bepaid by the First Buyer
LONDON
Printed by Henry Hills and John Fields Printersto His Highness
1657
Normally bound with ACT For the Better Improvement and Advancing The Receipts of the Excise(Not present here)
Slim pamphlet, measuring approx. 27cm x 18cm. Disbound, and only just held together with a couple of binding threads. There are a couple of small worm runs and the odd sma...ll hole (and crease) to top and bottom inner edges of leaves. Couple of spots, and the odd pale mark. Pale toning/offsetting, else the majority of contents remain in clean condition.
Woodcut device to centre of title page.
Fascinating collection of items with their excise duty / costs etc. Including costs for Drugs, Buttons, Carpets, Brass Compasses, Mercury, Myrrha, Jujubes, Opium, 'Oyl de Scorpions', Treacle of Venice, Elephants Teeth, Ebony Wood, Cats Poults, Fans, Fox Womb, Leopard Skin, Raisins, Licorish, Lace, Elk Hair, Juyce of Lemmons, Linen, 'Fat Madder', Olives, Frying Pans, Silk, Cloth of Silver, Dog-Fish Skins, Slude, Smalts, Whale Fins, Yarn, Cotton-wool of English Plantation, etc etc
Title page, 19-42, 47-61(Text and register continuous despite pagination).
The pamphlet above is usually bound with
An Additional ACT For the Better Improvement and AdvancingThe Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost.
At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17. day of September, An. Dom. 1657 [i.e. 1656]. (although not present here)
Scarce COMMONWEALTH pamphlet.
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