Gregg International Publishers, 1973. . Hardcover. 4to. Ex-library, slight bumps to corners, o/wise good. Fold-out tables. Facs. reprints. of rare demographic material. Prints in full the texts of Bills and Acts dealing with census-taking and the registration of vital statistics, including the unpassed 1753 Bill calling for an annual census, as well as several pamphlets and broadsheets expressing public hostility to the idea of a census. Also contains John Heysham's Bills of Mortality for Carlisle and an extract from the eighth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of England and Wales giving Dr William Farr's examination of the famous Northampton life table constructed by the Rev. Richard Price. Scarce. 348pp. 29382.