Excerpt from Monopolies Past and Present: An Intoductory Study In the following pages the writer has endeav ored to provide an historical introduction to the study of monopolies for the use of busy men who may wish to find in a single brief work a digest of a mass of information only to be oh tained in a number of special treatises. For the convenience of those who wish to pursue a fur ther investigation of the subject presented a list of the chief secondary sources of information is given at the beginning of each chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.