Book Id: 44217 Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof”. John Rickman, British Census.
Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof”

Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof”

Publisher Information: London: House of Commons, 1822.

[Rickman, John (1771-1840).] Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act . . . intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof” . . . Folio. [2], xxxv, [3], 551, [3], 160pp. Folding table on p. xv. [London;} House of Commons, 1822. 334 x 207 mm. Library buckram, spine a bit faded, slight wear, stamp of King’s College Library, London on spine. Very good.

First Edition of Great Britain’s third census, showing a population of 14.4 million people, an increase of 1.8 million over the census of 1811. The 1821 census was the first to break down Great Britain’s population by age; the data showed that about half the British population was under 20 years of age, in contrast to about 25% today. John Rickman, who drafted the bill that became the 1800 Census Act, supervised the first four British censuses and prepared the abstracts and reports for each.

Book Id: 44217

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