First edition. 8vo. x, 278 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; spine panel of jacket faded, otherwise a very good copy). Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979.
‘This book brings together nine papers by Professor Skinner so arranged as to form a single argument, bringing out the elements of what the author takes to be Adam Smith’s system of social, and moral, science’ (dust jacket blurb).
