This book was copy typed by R.W. Jones (rwj@freeshell.org) from an original print of the 1st edition held byThe British Library, London. (Shelfmark: 432d12/432.d.12).
The resultant text was then compared, using a text to speech player, against an original print of the 2ndedition held by the Library (Archives & Rare Books), London School of Economics and Political Science.This e-text incorporates the (very few) modifications included in the later edition.
Images of the four Charts are not included nor were they or the Indexes of the respective editions compared.
{Here appears beforethe fly-leaf the first chart, entitled
"Chart
of
UniversalCommercial History,
from the year 1500before the Christian Era
TO THE PRESENT YEAR1805.
being a space ofThree Thousand three hundred and four years,
by WilliamPlayfair.
Inventor of LinearArithmetic"}
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