GEE, Joshua.

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The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered: Later edition of Gee's most famous work, advocating for a protectionist trade policy and reduction in the national debt. It "presented its overview of British trade both historically and by national areas, and commented on specific problems of trade (for example devoting chapter 12 to 'French fashions pernicious to England)'. However, the greater part of the work was concerned with suggesting remedies: in particular solving the colonial labour problem by transporting domestic convicts and the unemployed poor and the creation of free ports at Gibraltar and Port Mahon; and, more generally, the encouragement of foreign import-replacing production in the plantations" (ODNB).This copy is a fourth edition.

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