Publisher's Synopsis
This edition presents all Barbon's pamphlets: A Discourse of Trade (1690), A Discourse Concerning the New Money Lighter (1696), An answer to a paper entitled reasons against reducing interest to four per cent (1694), A discourse showing the great advantages that new buildings, and the enlargement of towns and cities do bring to a nation (1678), and An apology for the builder (1685), all of them in a modernised version. Some archaisms were removed in order to improve the fluency of the reading (such as changing betwixt to between, hath to has, and mony to money), some names and places were modernised (such as Lock to Locke, when referring to the English philosopher, Orchadis to Orcades, and Sueden to Sweden), and the excessive midline capitalisation often found in old texts was also transformed in today's standard capitalisation. All these numerous editions were made in order to make the text more readable for today's reader while still being faithful to the author as much as possible.
