The Physiocrats. Six Lectures on the French Économistes of the 18th Ce

HIGGS (Henry).

The Physiocrats. Six Lectures on the French Économistes of the 18th Century.

First edition. 8vo. x, 158, [2, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to covers in blind, black coated endpapers, edges uncut (ex-St. Edward’s School Library with their bookplate to front pastedown and purple rubber stamps to front flyleaf and rear free endpaper, and white classmark to spine; contents slightly dusty, ‘autograph of the author’ inscribed in a later hand in blue ink to front fly leaf, youngish ink underlinings and marginal highlighting throughout, extensive annotations to rear free endpaper in the same hand, moderate area of surface loss to rear pastedown, text block cracked at pp. 64-5 and pp. 96-7; cloth slightly rubbed and unevenly faded, an undeniably suboptimal copy). London, Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1897.

£450.00

Inscribed by the author ‘Mr Richmond Ritchie with king regards from Henry Higgs 11 June 1901’ in black ink to the front flyleaf. The recipient, Sir Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie (1854-1912), was a British civil servant who spent most of his career working in the India Office.

Higgs’s account of the Physiocratic School, originally delivered as a series of lectures at the London School of Economics in 1896. Higgs had earlier written the entry on the Economistes for Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, and would later produce an edition of Richard Cantillon’s Essai in 1931.

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