A complete analysis or abridgement of dr. adam smith's inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. By Jeremiah joyce

Published by Printed by Benjamin Flower: for J. Deighton et al., Cambridge, 1797

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[4], 290pp, [2]. With a final publisher's advertisement leaf (not recorded by ESTC). Contemporary dark green calf-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, loss to head of spine. Head of title page shaved (sadly, to remove an early ownership inscription), foxed. The rare first edition of the first work of economics, in English, consciously intended for use as a textbook. As the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' which heaps justifiable praise on the magnum opus of Adam Smith, the work was designed to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education, in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce (1763- 1816) of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations, it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition (London, 1776) - or the by then well-known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth-century - into a single convenient octavo volume. As Joyce himself notes in a footnote to the final page of text, the developments suggested by Smith relating to alleviating the national debt (by introducing the British system of taxation to 'all provinces of the empire') were superseded by events in America during the 1770s, and, any hope for the 'discharging of the national debt' brought even more into doubt by the 'present melancholy situation of Ireland'. ESTC locates only 11 copies in the UK, and just 12 further elsewhere. ESTC T95379. Size: 8vo.…

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Title
A complete analysis or abridgement of dr. adam smith's inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. By Jeremiah joyce
Author
SMITH, Adam. JOYCE, Jeremiah [editor]
Publisher
Printed by Benjamin Flower: for J. Deighton et al., Cambridge
Publication year
1797
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First edition.

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Established 2007, Antiquates Ltd is an Antiquarian bookseller with a large, custom built shop in the heart of the Dorset countryside. We sell fine and rare books from our Wareham shop, in catalogues, and via our website (www.antiquates.co.uk). Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children, we nevertheless stock a wide range of works on paper from 1500-present - including modern first editions. Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important - and always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy; we are just the place if you're looking for an extra-special gift for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or graduation. (Open Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm)…

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