The Value of Annuities, CAMPBELL (William).

From £1 to £1000 per Annum, on Single Lives, from the Age of One to Ninety Years; with the Number of Years each Annuity is Worth, and the Rate of Interest the Purchaser Receives. With the Amount of the Several Rates of Legacy Duty Payable According to the Statute, on the Value of Annuities.

First Edition. 8vo. [266 x 168 x 26 mm]. xi, [v], 318 pp. Bound in the original marbled paper covered boards, red hard-grained paper covered spine, lettered in manuscript, plain endleaves, uncut and unopened edges. (Short splits at foot of upper joint and head of lower joint, tips of the corners exposed).
London: printed [by Squire and Warwick] for the Author, sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row; and P. Hill, Edinburgh, 1810.

A very good copy which remains largely unopened. William Campbell was Comptroller of the Legacy Duty and this is a presentation copy inscribed in ink at the head of the title "With the Author's respectful Compliments". It was gifted to John Scott (1751-1838), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1801-1806 and again 1807-1827, and has his signature and bookplate inside the front cover. Eldon almost made it to 90 and left an estate of £2,300,000.

Stock no. ebc8133