Adam Smith Preface (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression. Half calf over marbled boards, VG. vi+148pp, booksellers ticket of Thomas Miller of Dundee to the pastedown, a previous owner has added 'Hamilton of Bangour' in ink to the title, a nice clean near fine copy. Paper fault at page 128 not affecting the text. This copy has the preface over 2 pages with the last line of pp3 reads 'It is owing to the delicay of' in some copies the preface is contained upon a single page. The work was first issued in 1748 with an errata slip & page 133 mis-numbered. The errors have been corrected in this impression. A 'second edition' of the book ( infact a third impression ) contains a portrait frontis, this 2nd impression & the first edition of 1748 do not. See Chalmers in Archaeologia Scotica Vol III for a descriptive list of the printings. He states - 'Poems on Several Occasions' Glasgow printed by Rob and Andrew Foulis 1749 Small 8vo. pp 148 besides 3 leaves prefixed. This is an exact reprint of the preceding [1748 1st edition ] and contains the same number of pages. Though certainly a reprint it is not called a second edition. A subsequent reprint by the same printers is called The second edition. To my copy of this in 1749 there is prefixed an anonymous head of the Author engraved from the portrait by Gavin Hamilton at Rome'. Poems of the Scottish Jacobite poet William Hamilton [ 1704 - 1754 ] which were published in Scotland is his absence by friends whilst he was in exile in France following the Battle of Culloden. The preface, by Adam Smith, is Smith's first published work. 250 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. "Dr. Masterman's book furnishes fresh and notable contributions to our knowledge of so famous a region. it is richly stored with facts; it is lucidly written; and cannot fail to prove alike valuable to the expert and interesting to the ordinary reader. The reader will find a lucid account of Galilee as a whole, its structure, frontiers, divisions, natural products, the resulting characters of its people's life, and its place in history. Will both stimulate and control future discussion of a region which is not only full of many topographical problems but presents these to us in close connection with some of the greatest events of all history." - Preface. xv, [1], [2]-154 pages. Index. Maps. Black and white reproductions of photos. Former library copy with usual markings. Above-average wear to publisher's navy cloth. Front hinge open. A worthy reference copy of this informative and fascinating work. ; Sm 4to.…

Leather. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 148 pages; Two volumes bound together. 1748 & 1753, respectively. Both 1st edition. Hamilton's Poems on Several Occasions bound in at rear following the collection of poetry, The Union; Or, Select Scots and English Poems. Hamilton's collection is distinguished by the 1st appearance in print of Adam Smith, who penned the unsigned Preface. The Union collection features an early printing of Grey's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard along with work by Shipley, Lowth, Thomas Wharton, Smallet. Both works gathered in 4's. 144; 148 pp. Title pages present for both volumes; Hamilton's collection - leaf Q4 - has the page numbers neatly excised leaving a small hole in the top margin where page 128/129 should be. In period polished calf with gilt rules in triple amd extra gilt to spine. Title label lacking; front board attached by cords only and tenuous; rear joint rubbed and tender with separation to leather. All edges gilt but with some loss to gilt at front edge from mild paper predation. Armorial bookplate of the Thorolds library at Syston Park. Text block of both works quite neat and very snugly bound but wanting rebacking and a new label. G++ thus.…