An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a Life of the Author, an Introductory Discourse, Notes and Supplemental Dissertations by J.R. M'Culloch
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. Fifth Edition. Leatherbound. 8vo. Pp. lxvi, [2], 685. Frontis engraved portrait. With an additional engraved portrait preceding the biographical sketch. Dark green embossed morocco, green endpapers, red morocco title label amid five raised bands with gilt rules; sprinkled edges. Front joint partially split, top edge soiled, frontis. tissue guard removed, leaves crisp and bright. Armorial bookplate of Vernon K. Armitage on the front pastedown. Very Good-. Item #7928 McCulloch provides updates within the context of American independence, the French Revolution, and recent legal developments. Former owner barrister Vernon Kirk Armitage was a son of Lancashire industrialist Sir Elkanah Armitage.
Single-volume edition with the text of Smith's final revision (the fourth edition of 1786) set in double columns. From Printing and the Mind of Man (221): "Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith's achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work ... ." Moreover, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought."
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