First edition. 8vo. 161, [1], x [bibliography], [12, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (offsetting to endpapers, spotting to outer leaves; tips of spine slightly rubbed, corners bumped, otherwise a very good copy indeed). London, Walter Scott, 1887.
‘Haldane’s short biography of Adam Smith (1887)—the first in a revival of interest in Smith—showed him a cautious free-trader’ (ODNB). Also included is a useful ten-page bibliography of Smith’s works at the rear.
