Chronicon Preciosum, Or an Account of English Gold and Silver Money, The Price of Corn etc. by FLEETWOOd, Bishop:

Augustus M. Kelley. Used - Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Reprint of the new London edition of 1745. Very Good.

Published by Augustus M.Kelley, New York, 1969, reprint of the new edition of 1745. Brown imitation leather cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, no dustwrapper. 8.75ins x 5.5ins, [xii],147pp, 2pp index, 1pp advert, 6pp plates, 30pp appendix, 2pp adverts, 6pp plates. VG.

London: T. Osborne, 1745. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A detailed study of Coinage compared with the price of corn and commodities over 600 years together with a separately paginated historical account of coins illustrated with plates of gold and silver coins. A very good copy in full leather, rebacked with a gilt title to spine and the ex libris label of the library of De Sausmarez Shortt on front pastedown and a discrete library number (0.5cm) adhering to ffep. A small amount of light pencil marginalia to page 49 (see photos). Goldsmith 8173 The detailed study of Coinage compared with the price of corn and commodities over 600 years.

Binding in full leather with five raised bands on the spine. Cover edges and corners are worn. The hinges are broken but the cords are holding the covers well. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "William Charles De Meudon Earl Fitzwilliam." Also, inked letters at top left of pastedown: B: 5: 51 (marked through) E. VI. 5. No title on spine. Gently effaced library ownershp stamps on bottom title page and first text page. Paper clean and unfoxed. 147 pages followed by a 2-page index, and an appendix of 30 pages plus 12 plates illustrating gold coins of the kings of England.

LONDON, OSBORNE, 1745. SECOND EDITION. TWELVE ENGRAVED PLATES LATER HALF CALF, OCTAVO. VERY GOOD. TITLE LABEL MISSING FROM SPINE.

London: Printed for Charles Harper,, 1707. The first major historical survey of prices and historical changes in the value of money First edition of this landmark in the history of econometrics, the first major historical survey of prices, wages and income. In answer to a question about an Oxford Fellowship, Fleetwood set out to determine historical changes in the value of money. "But his treatise took a wider range; it brought together all the information he could find on the value of money and the prices of commodities during the Middle Ages in England; and it is still well worth consulting" (Palgrave II, 89). "Although in his price comparison Fleetwood did not go so far as to think of weighting his individual items according to their importance in a shopping basket, he did see the need to have a single magnitude, however approximate, as an index of change" (Stone). The index worked out by Fleetwood has proved notably accurate: the figures in E.H. Phelps Brown's and S.V. Hopkins' 1956 assessment of… Read More

London: Printed for Charles Harper,, 1707. The first major historical survey of prices and historical changes in the value of money First edition of this landmark in the history of econometrics. Chronicon Preciosum was the first major historical survey of prices, wages and income. In answer to a question about an Oxford Fellowship, Fleetwood set out to determine historical changes in the value of money. "But his treatise took a wider range; it brought together all the information he could find on the value of money and the prices of commodities during the Middle Ages in England; and it is still well worth consulting" (Palgrave II, p. 89). "Although in his price comparison Fleetwood did not go so far as to think of weighting his individual items according to their importance in a shopping basket, he did see the need to have a single magnitude, however approximate, as an index of change" (Stone). The index worked out by Fleetwood has proved notably accurate: the figures in E.H. Phelps Brown's and S.V.… Read More