Reasons against Mr. Maidwell's Bill, for appropriating to himself and other Governors of a School for Educating a few Gentleman's Sons in the Art of Navigation, the sole Printing and Publishing of all manner of Advertisements, Intelligences and Notifications, for maintaining the said School.
1700
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Reasons against Mr. Maidwell's Bill, for appropriating to himself and other Governors of a School for Educating a few Gentleman's Sons in the Art of Navigation, the sole Printing and Publishing of all manner of Advertisements, Intelligences and Notifications, for maintaining the said School.
Created/published
[London], [1700]
Description
1 sheet ([1] p) ; (fol.)
Associated name
Maidwell, Lewis, 1650-1715.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 270955 (folio)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Roger T. and Peggy M. Simonds Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "No place (1700) Broadside, folio, docketed, printed one side, partly untrimmed, has been folded. Laurence Maidwell of Geddington, Schoolmaster and author of the play The Loving Enemies, c.1680. Maidwell’s controversial Bill for gifting his own Private Estate to the nation in return for a scheme for a Public Academy or Mathematical School to be situated in St. James, London, with himself installed as Governor for life. His Bill provoked a number of very serious objections including that of the School being a front for granting him freedom to settle his own salary without regulation, and to create a monopoly over the national rights to the publishing of printed advertisements forever. Not in Wing. ESTC on line does find one copy which is at California State Library, Sutro." Ordered from: A. R. Heath Rare Books, D 9253, 2018-11-13, email inquiry, ref. no. 16867.
Folger accession
270955