With a Life of the Author. Also, A View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists; With a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works; from the French of M. Garnier.
Three volumes. 8vo. ix, [1], lxiii, [1], 360; vi, 514; v, [1], 448, [50, Index] pp. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper covered boards and vellum corners, smooth spines panelled with gilt rules and roll-tooling, second panels lettered in gilt on red morocco labels, fourth panels numbered in gilt within small gilt wreaths, marbled edges (occasional intermittent browning and spotting, otherwise very good). Edinburgh, Silvester Doig and Andrew Sitirling, 1811.
A well-bound copy of this early-nineteenth Edinburgh edition of ‘the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought’ (PMM). Originally published in 1776, ‘The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry’ (ODNB).
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