Butts, Isaac. Protection and Free Trade : An Inquiry whether Protective Duties can benefit the Interests of a Country in the Aggregate; including an Examination into the Nature of Value, and the Agency of the Natural Forces in Producing It. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. First Edition. [12054]
Terracotta publisher's cloth with bright gilt titles on front & spine, binding with very slight wear and a few wrinkles in the cloth, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, tight. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait with printed signature and tissue guard. 190 clean pp. plus one page of publisher's adverts. Very good. Hardcover.
"The present volume will testify for how long a period the subject of political economy had occupied his thoughts. In his retirement it became his favorite study; and was regarded by him as in importance to no other. Beside occasional publications on this subject, he prepared the present treatise on Protection, Value, etc., as an argument for free trade, based upon principles rather than upon statistical premises." - Editor's Preface.
Isaac Butts (1816-1874), b. Duchess Co., New York; d. Rochester, New York. A newspaperman, he was in charge of Rochester's Daily Advertiser (1846-1856) and was one of the first directors of the Western Union Company.
