Prices and Wages in England

<p>Prices and wages are the social phenomena most susceptible of objective statistical record over long periods of time. They reflect and measure the influence of changes in population in supply of precious metals in industrial structure and agricultural methods in trade and transport in consumption and in the technical arts. Forming part of publications of the International Committee on Price History this is Volume I of data from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. It was originally published in 1939 and almost the entire stock was destroyed during an air-raid. The present volume is a facsimile of that edition. This volume looks at the Mercantile era. </p>