First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 273, [1], [2, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original brick-red pebble grain cloth, spine lettered and riled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind, edges untrimmed (faint partial offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; just a hint of faint rubbing to tips of spine and corners, a very fine, notably bright copy). London, Macmillan and Co, 1905.
Jevons’s final book, published posthumously under the editorship of his friends, being a fragment of a larger treatise which he intended to supplement his Theory of Political Economy.