The State in its Relation to Trade

E-194. Good+. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Macmillan and Co. , London, UK. 1883. 181 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (small stain present to the front board). Byrdcliffe bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (24 June 1819 – 11 October 1899) , was an English civil servant and statistician. He entered the public service in 1850 as secretary to the naval department (renamed the marine department in 1853) of the Board of Trade. In 1865 he was promoted to be one of the joint secretaries of the Board of Trade, and in 1867 became permanent secretary. His tenure of the office of permanent secretary, which he held for upwards of twenty years, was marked by many reforms and an energetic administration. Not only was he an advanced Liberal in politics, but an uncompromising advocate of free trade of the strictest school. He was created a baronet for his services at the Board of Trade in 1883, [ and in 1886 he retired from office. During the same year he published a work entitled Free Trade versus Fair Trade, in which he dealt with an economic controversy then greatly agitating the public mind. He had already, in 1883, written a volume on The State in its Relation to Trade. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .