How To Pay For The War : Being Ideas Offered to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Fabian Research Department / Edited by Sidney Webb
1916, First Edition. Westminster : The Fabian Society ; London : G. Allen and Unwin. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Book contains 'Lemington Library Adult school' ink stamp ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages; Physical desc. : xiii, 278 p ; 23 cm. Notes: "This volume is the outcome of a Committee of the Fabian Research Department ... No one contributor is responsible for any part of the volume." 'The Fabian Research Department': p. [1-2], third sequence. 'At the Fabian Bookshop' (list of books available): p. I-xii, fourth sequence. Includes bibliographic footnotes and index. Contents: The development of the Post Office. --A public service of railway and canal transport. --The nationalisation of the coal supply. --A state insurance department. --A revolution in the income tax. --Index. Subject: World War, 1914-1918 - Finance - Great Britain. Government ownership. Postal service - Great Britain. Income tax - Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 - Finance - Great Britain. Finance, public. Public finance Great Britain. Item #180201
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