First edition. 8vo. viii, [2], 262 pp., frontispiece portrait of Adam Smith and five other plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (paper slightly browned, contents otherwise generally clean and unmarked; jacket unevenly toned, light wear to extremities, loss to head of spine panel with tape repair to verso, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). London, P.S. King and Son Ltd, 1939.
A study of the theory of distribution in classical economic thought by the American economist B.F. Catherwood, focusing on the works of Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, Nassau William Senior, and John Stuart Mill.
