First edition. Small 8vo. xviii, 349, [1] pp. Original red cloth blocked in black and gilt, black coated endpapers. A near fine copy. London, Henry S. King & Co., The International Scientific Series, Volume XVII, 1875.
An unusually nice copy of the rare first edition of Jevon’s popular and frequently reprinted primer on monetary economics. ‘It provides, in effect, a text-book account for the general reader of Orthodox Classical Monetary Theory as it stood in the 1870s’ (Laidler, ‘British Monetary Orthodoxy in the 1870s’, p. 75).
