First edition. 8vo. cvi, [1], pp., frontispiece portrait of Hume after a medallion by Tassie. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (spotting to edges of text block and to preliminaries and terminal leaves, the contents otherwise unmarked; jacket price clipped with some minor chipping to tips of spine panel and corners, notwithstanding an excellent copy). Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1955.
The definitive collection of Hume’s principal writings on political economy, with a substantial and significant introduction to Hume’s economic thought by the editor Eugene Rotwein.