An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; in Thr

SMITH (Adam). & BUCHANAN (David).

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; in Three Volumes. With Notes, and an Additional Volume, by David Buchanan. [with:] Observations on the Subjects Treated of in Dr Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Na

First Buchanan edition. Four volumes. 8vo. x, xvi, 525, [1, blank]; viii, 542 ; viii, 462, [49, Index], [1, Errata]; [8], 316, 88 [Appendix], [14, Index] pp. With the half titles. Recent half calf with marbled paper covered boards, spines lettered in gilt on red and green faux leather labels, marbled edges (heavy spotting and some dampstaining to outer leaves of each volume, particularly severe to Vol. 1 with crude tape reinforcements at head of gutters to opening leaves and dampstaing to upper margins throughout). Edinburgh, Oliphant, Waugh & Innes; London, John Murray, 1814.

£1,250.00

A decent copy of the important David Buchanan edition of The Wealth of Nations, recently rebound in functional half calf, with significant internal conditions points as above, but otherwise complete and without any loss of text.

The Scottish politician and economic journalist David Buchanan (1779-1848) ‘substantially annotated Wealth of Nations, inserting new chapters and appending an entire volume of commentary, Observations on the Subjects Treated of in Dr. Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’ (Tribe, p. 249f).

Tribe, A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, 112.

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; in Three Volumes. With Notes, and an Additional Volume, by David Buchanan. [with:] Observations on the Subjects Treated of in Dr Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Na

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