The trial of the spirits: Or, Some considerations upon the pernicious consequences of the gin-trade to Great-Britain; (as it is destructive of the health and lives of His Majesty's subjects; and as it affects the trade, manufactures and landed interest of this island) humbly offer'd to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, and to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Jekyll. By a lover of mankind

People / Organizations

• Philanthropos. (Author)
• Thomas Cooper ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row; and sold at all the pamphlet-shops in London and Wesminster; and by John Webb, bookseller, in Greenwich, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]

Publication year

1736

ESTC No.

T210927

Grub Street ID

238804

Description

[2],28p. ; 8°.

Note

Signed on p.28: Philanthropos

In: 'A collection of all the pamphlets .. on the British distillery', [London], 1736

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious

Price in square brackets: (Price Six-pence.)

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43