JOHNSTON, Bryce. 106

£60

Description

Autograph Letter Signed, to George Chalmers, Office for Trade, forwarding a presentation copy of his latest book, ‘An Essay on the way to restore and perpetuate good order, peace, and prosperity to the nations’. 1 page 4to, address leaf. Holywood, 5 June 1801. ‘According to your advice, I have thrown off a small edition of the book… I have sold the first edition of 1000 copies to Ogle and Ailsman in Edinburgh. They intend in ten days, to send up some copies to Ogle in London for sale.’