First edition. 8vo. viii, 261, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (printing flaw to lower corner of final two leaves, not effecting text, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; a few tiny nicks to extremities of jacket, notwithstanding a near fine, notably bright copy). London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.
A substantial survey of this four hundred year period of economic history by Michael Postan (1899-1981), ‘one of most distinguished economic historians of the twentieth century’ (New Palgrave).