(EAST INDIA COMPANY).

Estimates from the East India Company. Ordered to be Printed 8th March 1803. [bound with] Accounts, Presented to the House of Commons, from the East India Company, Respecting their Annual Revenues and Disbursements... Ordered to be Printed 28th April 1803. [and] Accounts, Presented to the House of Commons, from the East India Company; Respecting the Island of Ceylon, and Profit and Loss on Sales, &c. and also Respecting the Capital Stock of the Said Company. Ordered to be Printed 11th and 15th July 1803. [and] [Ditto] Respecting the Freight and Tonnage. Ordered to be Printed 18th July 1803. [and] Accounts Presented to the House of Commons, of the Quantities of the therein-mentioned Articles Imported into England [and Wales], and Exported therefrom, in the Three Years Ending the Fifth of January 1793; and Four Years Ending Fifth January 1803; Distinguishing Each Year and Several Ports. Ordered to be Printed 2[n]d July 1803. [and] Accounts Presented to the House of Commons, of the Quantities of the Under-mentioned Articles Imported into Scotland, and Exported therefrom, in the Three Years Ending the Fifth of January 1793; and Four Years Ending Fifth January 1803; Distinguishing Each Year and Several Ports. Ordered to be Printed 2[n]d July 1803.

1803. Small folio. (ii); 9, (3); (iv), 82, (4); (vi); (viii); 201, (1); (ii), 131, (1) pp., the pages also continuously numbered in contemporary manuscript (449, (1) pp.) with a corresponding handwritten index to the front of the volume. Recent brown half calf over old marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label. Very good. A fascinating and statistically rich collection of official papers relating to the company's accounts between Britain and the sub-continent at probably the height of its powers. The first of the larger sections covers the "possible resources" plus the annual revenues and civil & military charges for the three Presidencies and centres of commerce: Bengal (Fort William), Madras (Fort St. George) and Bombay with a few brief sections on Fort Marlborough (Indonesia), St Helena and the factory at Canton. The largest section covers the import and export of goods by the company through 74 English and Welsh ports. London, Liverpool and Bristol obviously feature prominently but the accounts methodically list many of the smaller ports around the country with a breakdown on the large number of stock types being moved in and out of the country. The last set of accounts does the same for Scotland although the breakdown goes by year, then type of stock, followed by the port and the quantities involved. Item #37161

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