MILLAN, John.

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Coins, weights, and measures. Sixth and final edition overall of this scarce handbook for the historical study of commerce, comprising an impressively comprehensive set of engraved tables. A work of the same name is first mentioned bound after Millan's Signals for the Royal Navy and Ships under Convoy (1746), but WorldCat and ESTC record its first separate appearance in 1747. The Egertons' two-page catalogue of 46 military titles bound at the rear of this copy is extremely scarce, ESTC ascribing a date of 1794 and recording just three copies (British Library; National Library of Wales; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka). Thomas and John Egerton were the successors to Millan, who died in 1782/4. Like Millan, they were situated "opposite Admiralty": they likely took over his shop and unsold stock, and presumably sheets of the 1749 printing of Coins, weights, and measures were still at the premises upon their succession which they continued to sell. The Egertons traded together until as late as mid-1795, when John died. Thomas continued to advertise as "successor to Mr Millan" in his imprints.

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