Report from the Committee of Secrecy, Appointed by Order

1715. ENGLAND. A Report from the Committee of Secrecy, Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to Examine Several Books and Papers ... Relating to the late Negotiations of Peace and Commerce .... By ... Robert Walpole.... London: Jacob Tonson, Timothy Goodwin, Bernard Lintott, and William Taylor, 1715. Fol. [4], 64, 92, 95-96 p. Later plain boards, leather spine label. Foxed, footnotes on a few early pages shaved, light soiling. Robert Walpole's report, dealing chiefly with the negotiations of peace and trade, the intended demolition of Dunkirk, and the (truncated) Assiento contract. The numbering of the final leaf varies among copies; the text is complete and consecutive. (Inventory #: 6464)