Translated and Edited by M. Epstein. First edition in English. 8vo. 400 pp. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt, bottom edge untrimmed (just a hint of faint spotting to preliminaries and terminal leaves, contemporary ownership inscription of ‘E. Thompson / Thorgerson’ ? to front free endpaper, ‘Presentation Copy’ blind stamp to title page, otherwise generally internally clean; light wear to tips of spine and corners, a near fine, notably bright copy). London, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, 1915.
‘An outstanding study of the bourgeois individual in general and the entrepreneur in particular’ in which Sombart ‘analysed the emergence of a certain economically oriented mentality and psychology, the ‘Wirtschaftsgeist’ (economic spirit), for the development of capitalism’ (New Palgrave).
