@article{639196,
      note = {Preface signed: D.F., i.e. Daniel Defoe.- First published  in 1697 as 'An essay upon projects'.},
      author = {Defoe, Daniel,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/639196},
      title = {Essays upon several projects: or, effectual ways for  advancing the interest of the nation. Wherein are plainly  laid down. The Means by which the Subjects in general may  be eased and enriched; the Poor relieved, and Trade  encreased in the most material Branches of it, viz. in  Constituting Seamen to theirs and the Nations Advantage for  Encouragement of Merchants and Merchandizing; for Relief of  the Poor of Friendly Societies; for discouraging Vice, and  encouraging Vertue; the Usefulness; of Banks and  Assurances; to prevent Bankrupts; with the surest way to  recover bad Debts; and many other considerable things,  profitable and conducing to the great Advantage of the  Nation in general [electronic resource].},
      publisher = {printed for Thomas Ballard, at the Rising Sun in Little  Britain,},
      recid = {639196},
      pages = {[2],xiv,336p. ;},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1702},
}