Four printed leaflets relating to the English League for the Taxation of Land Values.

Author: 
The English League for the Taxation of Land Values [Frederick Verinder (1858-1948), General Secretary]
Publication details: 
All circa 1903. All 'Printed by Page & Pratt, Ltd., 22 St Andrew St., E.C.' [London].
£250.00
SKU: 7840

All four items clear and complete, on aged paper with wear to the extremities of item one. Item One: 'Leaflet No. 1. English League for the Taxation of Land Values. Statement of Principles.' 12mo, 4 pp, on unbound bifolium. Headings include 'Objects of the League', 'Meaning of Land Values', 'The Taxation of Land Values would be just', 'The Taxation of Land Values would promote general prosperity and remove social evils'. Item Two: '[...] No. 3. The Taxation of Land Values: What it would do. 12mo leaflet, 2 pp. The first page consists of a long list of benefits, beginning 'Would enable us to untax the people's bread, sugar, tea, and other necessaries of life.' and ending 'Would remove the causes which produce poverty in the midst of plenty, rich idlers and industrious paupers, slums and alms-houses side by side with churches and palaces.' The reverse is headed 'The Taxation of Land Values: What it has done.' With paragraphs on New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland. Item Three: '[...] No. 4. A Programme for Business Men. (By permission from "The Machinery User's Journal," April, 1903.' 12mo leaflet, 2 pp. Item Four: 12mo leaflet, 2 pp, headed, on recto, 'Some of the Publications issued and sold by the English League for the Taxation of Land Values'. Headed, on reverse, 'Books every Student of the Land Question Should Read.' Two titles ticked in blue pencil. See 'The Land Values Movement in Great Britain', Francis Neilson, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April 1959. COPAC lists no. I at Oxford and No.2 at Bristol ONLY.