This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?

Based on the British Library's Eighteenth century short title catalogue (ESTC), and consisting of works printed in the British Empire, or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701 to 1800.