Due opere in un volume in 12mo di (6)-167 pagine per la prima opera e 77-(3) pagine per la seconda con pagina di titolo a se stante (Aylmer, 1696), sebbene sia richiamata nel titolo generale che ha data successiva (1700). Evidentemente nel momento in cui venne composto e posto in vendita il primo saggio, si approfittò per “smaltire” le copie non ancora vendute del secondo pamphlet. Bollo di biblioteca estinta alla pagina di titolo, al verso e all'ultima. Legatura moderna in cartoncino rigido. Condizioni interne molto buone, poche bruniture; in barbe. Da Wikipedia: JOHN POLLEXFEN merchant and economic writer, born about 1638, settled in the parish of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London. A member of the committee of trade and plantations in 1675, and of the board of trade from 1696 to 1705, he exercised much influence. He agitated for withdrawing the privileges of the old East India Company, and establishing a new company on a national basis. In 1697 he published ‘A Discourse of Trade, Coyn, and Paper Credit, and of ways and means to gain and retain riches. To which is added the Argument of a Learned Counsel [Sir Henry Pollexfen] upon an Action of the Case brought by the East India Company against Mr. Sand[y]s, an Interloper,’ London, 8vo. In this important pamphlet Pollexfen treats labour as the sole source of wealth, and points out that national wealth depends on the proportion between ‘those that depend to have their riches and necessaries from the sweat and labour of others,’ and ‘those that labour to provide those things’ (p. 44). Like all free traders of the seventeenth century, he was equally opposed to monopoly and to ‘leaving trade to take its own course,’ but favourable to the state regulation of industry and commerce. His main object, however, was to attack the East India Company, and to urge the claims of the private traders. He discusses at length the ‘interlopers,’ particularly Captain Thomas Sandys, to whose enterprises he, together with other merchants, probably contributed, so that a test case might be submitted to the courts.
