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1803156812London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. A classic of economic thought significantly expanded The Great Quarto edition notionally the second edition of the Essay on Population published in 1798 but so substantially enlarged rewritten and re-titled as to be a new book. "In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay incorporating details of the population checks that had been in operation in many different countries and periods. Although nominally a second edition it was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work. He did not claim originality for the idea that population tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to the second edition he stated that in writing the first edition he had deduced the principle of population from the writings of David Hume Robert Wallace Adam Smith and Richard Price but that in the intervening period he had become aware that much more had been published on the subject. He nevertheless believed that even more remained to be done especially in describing the means by which populations are checked and in drawing out the practical implications of the principle of population. In the second edition he made clear what was only implicit in the first that prudential restraint should if humanly possible be 'moral restraint' - that is delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' Essay on the Principle of Population 1st edition 1798 p. iv and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' 2nd edition 1803 p. vii by arguing that moral restraint if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness" ODNB. Quarto. Uncut in the original boards manuscript lettering to spine. Housed in a custom solander box with red label. Neat 20th-century ownership label to front pastedown. Joints and corners worn some expert reconsolidation to binding horizontal tear to head of title neatly repaired without loss and short vertical tear to lower margin of the same; a very good copy. Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701. hardcover
180950942Georgetown J. Milligan 1809. First American edition. Hardcover. Index at the end of the first volume. The signatures of three early owners of the book appear on the endpapers. Both volumes are internally complete and firm but the backstrips of both volumes are perished and the covers of volume one are loose while the front cover of volume two is detached and the back cover is missing. Both volumes have major damp stains: in volume one it affects the bottom inside quadrant of the page of the first third of the book while in volume two it affects the outside edge of the last quarter of the book. . Two volumes separately paged. A binding copy of the first American edition of a landmark book in the history of social thought. Georgetown, J. Milligan hardcover
180785583J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church Yard 1807. Hardcover. Very Good. 1807 2 volume set full leather bindings 4th edition London. Bookplates to front pastedowns both volumes. Volume one shows borer damage to margins not to text. Also shows contemporary ownership ink to title. Text is unmarked bindings are tight. Spines are sunfaded. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church Yard hardcover
1807314917London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard by T. Bensley 1807. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf marbled edges. Rebacked in gilt calf one hinge tender. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay . was a simple one. The population of a community . increases geometrically while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is hecked by 'misery'" PMM. PMM 251 first edition; Kress 5219 Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley unknown
18265417London: John Murray 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. 8vo. Pp. xviii 535; iv 528. Both volumes with one blank at the front and at the end. No half-title in volume 1. In the original boards with a patterned cloth spine strip the paper spine labels chipped spine cloth faded board corners worn ink name to the upper edge of the front boards with the previous owner's bookplate to paste-down and an ownership signature to the front endpaper of the first volume. Light foxing to the prelims and very light foxing throughout the text is very clean and the bindings are tight and square. A nice clean set. The sixth edition and the last edition to be published in his lifetime. Lowndes 1459. John Murray hardcover
181751078London John Murray 1817. 8vo. Bound in three nice uniform contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spines with wear. Front board and spine detached from book-block on volume 1. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all three volumes. A fine set. <br/><br/><em>The fifth edition of this political and economic classic which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace.This present fifth edition contain several important additions price of grain and the third chapter of Book III was completely rewritten. The book then as now is considered highly controversial and it has influenced all demographers ever since as well as being of immense importance to the study of economic theory and genetic inheritance. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe. "Parson" Malthus as Cobbett dubbed him was for many a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted. But his influence on social policy whether for good or evil was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." PMM 251.Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 called the "enfant terrible" of the economists was an English demographer statistician and political economist who is best known for his groundbreaking views on population growth presented in his "Essays on the Principle of Population" which is based on his own prediction that population would outrun food supply causing poverty and starvation. Among other things this caused the legislation which lowered the population of the poor in England. Malthus actually turned political economic and social thought upside down with this work which has caused him to be considered one of the 100 most influential persons in history Hart The 100: A Ranking of the most Influential Persons in History 1978. Of course he was condemned by Marx and Engels and opposed by the socialists universally but the work was of immense impact on not only politics economics social sciences etc but also on natural sciences. "Later in the "Origin of Species" he Darwin wrote that the struggle for existence "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food and no prudential restraint from marriage" p. 63. Alfred Russel Wallace who arrived at a worked-out formulation of the theory of evolution at almost precisely the same time as Darwin acknowledged that "perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's "Principles of Population" My Life p. 232. Although there were four decennial censuses before Malthus' death he did not himself analyze the data although he did influence Lambert Quetelet and Pierre Verhulst who made precise statistical studies on growth of populations in developed countries and showed how the early exponential growth changed to an S curve." DSB IX p. 69. As Malthus realized that his theories were not satisfactorily presented or sufficiently demonstrated in the first edition from 1798 he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics and then published the second edition in 1803. Among other places he travelled through Northern Germany and his detailed diaries of these journeys provided him with some of the evidence necessary for the development of his theory on population growth. The observational information that he gathered on his travels in Europe were crucial to the development of his theories which also means that the work is of great interest for other European countries and not only Britain. "In 1819 the Royal Society elected Malthus to a fellowship. He was also a member of the French Institute and the Berlin Academy and a founding member of the Statistical Society 1834." DSB IX p. 67. Printing and the Mind of Man 251 first edition. Einaudi 3670Mattioli 2210Goldsmith 21761Kress B6974 </em> hardcover
181771430<p> Volume I xvi 496 pages. Volume II iv 507 pages. Volume III iv 500 pages.</p> Published by John Murray hardcover
180321446London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. Second Edition. Large Quarto. 26.5 cm x 21 cm. Pp. viii 3 contents 1 errata 610. Bound in contemporary diced calf bordered by double gilt rules artfully rebacked to style with corners restored spine divided into 6 compartments with central blind-stamped ornaments flanked by narrow gilts rules dog tooth rolls and dotted lines between raised bands gilt titled direct marbled endpapers speckled edges. Endpapers and title a bit foxed title and facing blank with brown spotting to inner margin almost certainly caused by pressed foliage but otherwise a very clean copy internally with only an occasional hint of marginal foxing in a handsome and well-preserved binding. The Second Edition known as the Great Quarto Edition of Malthus's famous treatise on population. This edition was so substantially revised and enlarged from the anonymously published essay of 1798 that the author himself considered it almost a new work. The original essay was essentially a polemical tract designed as a corrective to the utopian views of Condorcet and Godwin regarding the perfectibity of society. Malthus argued that progress of society will always be hindered by the tendency of the population to increase faster than the means of subsistence. While populations increase geometrically food production only increases arithmetically resulting in hardship and starvation for the lowest ranks of society. In the vastly enlarged 1803 edition the product of five years of research and travel on the European continent Malthus addresses the many misconceptions and criticisms of his original essay by presenting a far more thorough and balanced statement of his views. He begins the work with a lengthy historical analysis of the working out of his theory in many different types of societies throughout the world from ancient times to the present. By fleshing out his ideas with factual examples he claims to give his work in his own words "a more practical and permanent interest". As the extended title of the second edition indicates the last half of Malthus's work is devoted to an issue barely touched upon in the earlier essay namely the measures and expedients that may be taken by society to mitigate or eliminate the suffering resulting from population pressures. Here he softens the harshness of his original conclusion that the only checks on population consist in "misery or vice" i.e. famine and disease or homosexuality and abortion by proposing a number of preventive measures that should be taken in the form of education for the lower classes reform of the poor laws and "moral restraint" i.e. abstinence and delayed childbearing in order to avoid the ruinous consequences of over-population. Malthus's theory of population though later qualified by technological advances in food production and birth control remains one of the most influential works in the history of social and economic thought. Most importantly it served to call public attention to population as a major factor in the progress of civilisation and through its emphasis on social competition for scarce resources "the struggle for existence" provided the critical impetus for Darwin and Wallace's theory of natural selection. PMM 25 1 cf. 1st edition. Printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley Hardcover
1817140901001London: John Murray 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 496 p; iv 507 p; 500 p. "The fifth edition with important additions." Complete and unrestored in three volumes. Original boards with orginal paper spines most of which are not surprisingly gone given their fragility. In protective mylar wraps. Very Good condition overall: bindings degraded over time but completely unrestored and text in very nice shape. Clean pages-- no marks-- generally bright for age. Some foxing throughout text and typical waviness. Bumped corners. Not ex-library! Old London bookseller's stamp on front paste downs. Secodn volume front cover creased missing small strip o paper. Third volume front board detached the other covers are intact; the mylar wraps keep them all in place. Nice condition overall. A greatly revised and expanded edition of Malthus' most famous work the second-to-last published during his lifetime. Contains revisions of his views on rent a deeper look at how the political organization of states was determined by population and what limits to population growth were already occurring in Europe and an appendix with replies to critics. An enormously influential and controversial work that inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. John Murray hardcover
1806236862London: Printed for T. Johnson 1806. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf; joints cracked two boards detached; rubbed and scuffed; scattered foxing throughout; withal a good serviceable copy. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. GERITS: Third edition the first to be published in 2 volumes and the first published after the Great Quarto edition of 1803 of one of the most important and influential books in the history of economic thought. The third edition contained numerous revisions among which was a text entitled A Reply to the Chief Objections which have been urged against the Essay on the Principle of Population which was also published separately so that it might be bound with earlier ones. Kress B.5067; Goldsmiths 19210; Einaudi 3669; Carpenter Economic Bestsellers XXXII 3; PMM 251 for the first edition; Blaug Great Economists before Keynes p. 141ff Printed for T. Johnson unknown
1803924F45DLondon: J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". None. The important and heavily revised second edition of Thomas Robert Malthus's discussion of the problems of a growing human population. First published in 1798 this is the substantially revised enlarged and re-written second edition of Malthus's important work.Malthus's work - which posits that the human population will outgrow the supply of food and resources - fuelled the debate on the size of the British population and contributed to the passion of the Census Act of 1800.A key argument within the book was dedicated to what is now known as the Malthusian Law of Population theorising that growing population rates will lead to a rising supply of labour inevitably lowering wages and leading to poverty.With the armorial bookplate of James Frampton to the front pastedown along side the former owner's ink inscription of N.B. Hobbs. Hobbs's inscription is also present to the recto of a front blank.This second edition incorporated details of population controls that had been used in various countries and periods. In a contemporary calf binding with light rubbing to boards. Minor loss to tail of spine label. Hinges neatly repaired. Retaining the original endpapers. Bookplate and inscription to front pastedown with further inscription to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Significant spotting to endpapers and to first and final leaves. Pages bright with scattered further areas of concentrated spotting throughout. Very Good J. Johnson, by T. Bensley hardcover
1806ZB1325657London: J. Johnson 1806. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 2 vols. xvi 505 58 index vii 559 pp. contemporary full leather bindings now dry and worn a few areas of the spine of the first volume now lacking the leather covering masonic library and private book plate to the front paste down of each volume scant foxing else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: J. Johnson hardcover
18262411260086London: John Murray 1826. Hardcover. Acceptable. Malthus' Classic Work on the Economics of Population Growth Sold with all faults. Vol. 1 only. xviii 535 pages Important note: lacking pages 531-534. Good candidate for rebind. Binding broken boards detached lacking half of spine leather. Marbled boards. Clean unmarked pages. Vol. 1 of the 6th expanded edition of Essay on the Principle of Population. In this work Malthus argues that there is a disparity between the rate of growth of population which increases geometrically and the rate of growth of agriculture which increases only arithmetically. He then explores how populations have historically been kept in check. The final edition in Malthus' lifetime. Goldsmiths' 24893; Kress C1724 John Murray hardcover
18177080<p><em>An Essay on the Principle of Population or A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; With An Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions.</em><br /><br />8vo. Modern ½-brown calf leather binding over marbled boards gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands two black and red gilt lettered morocco labels; new endpapers added. London: Printed for John Murray 1817. <strong>Fifth Edition with Important Additions.</strong> <strong>3 volumes. </strong><br /><br /><em>An Essay on the Principle of Population </em>was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson London. The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. In 1803 a second and much enlarged edition was published with the author acknowledged. Later editions were taken from the second edition and there are additional changes throughout the sixth edition. It has been acknowledged as one of the most influential economic works in history. Library stamps on the title pages; some numbers in pencil on the copyright pages; title page of volume 1 worn with a small tape repair; o/w Fine. Rare.</p> Printed for John Murray hardcover
1809013706Washington City: Chew Weightman 1809. First american from the third London edition. Due volumi 13x22 cm di XVI-510-XXXIII pp e VI-542 pagine. Scritta di proprietà datata 5 march 1834 sulle pagine di titolo. Una gora alla metà inferiore del volume nelle prime ed ultime 30 pp del volume 1. Qualche altra brunitura sparsa. Legatura coeva in tutta pelle marmorizzata dorsi lisci con tassello di titolo; qualche usura e abrasioni ai piatti del volume 2 ma nel complesso bell'esemplare di questa prima edizione americana dell'opera di Malthus. Chew Weightman unknown
1817140901001London: John Murray 1817. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 496 p; iv 507 p; 500 p. "The fifth edition with important additions." Complete and unrestored in three volumes. Original boards with orginal paper spines most of which are not surprisingly gone given their fragility. In protective mylar wraps. Very Good condition overall: bindings degraded over time but completely unrestored and text in very nice shape. Clean pages-- no marks-- generally bright for age. Some foxing throughout text and typical waviness. Bumped corners. Not ex-library! Old London bookseller's stamp on front paste downs. Secodn volume front cover creased missing small strip o paper. Third volume front board detached the other covers are intact; the mylar wraps keep them all in place. Nice condition overall. A greatly revised and expanded edition of Malthus' most famous work the second-to-last published during his lifetime. Contains revisions of his views on rent a deeper look at how the political organization of states was determined by population and what limits to population growth were already occurring in Europe and an appendix with replies to critics. An enormously influential and controversial work that inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. John Murray hardcover books
181751078London, John Murray, 1817. 8vo. Bound in three nice uniform contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spines with wear. Front board and spine detached from book-block on volume 1. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper on all three volumes. A fine set.
180362792London, Printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803. Large 4to. Later brown hcalf with four raised bands, single gilt lines and red leather title-label to spine. First three and last 14 leaves a bit brownspotted, title-page and last two leaves marginally repaired at hinge, otherwise a very nice, clean, and solid copy. VIII, (4), 610 pp.
1807314917London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard by T. Bensley 1807. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf marbled edges. Rebacked in gilt calf one hinge tender. Fourth edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay . was a simple one. The population of a community . increases geometrically while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is hecked by 'misery'" PMM. PMM 251 first edition; Kress 5219 Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley unknown books
180955964Washington City: Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan 1809. First American from the third London edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xvi 510 xxxiv; vii 542 pp. Half-title to each volume present. Here Malthus "laid down his famous principle that population increases in a geometrical and subsistence only in an arithmetical ratio and argued that population is necessarily limited by the 'checks' of vice and misery" DNB. PMM 251 for the first edition published London 1798. American Imprints 17975. Recent quarter-calf and marbled boards new leather spine labels. Persistent light foxing but a very good copy in an attractive new binding. 2458. <br/><br/> Printed and published by Roger Chew Weightman (another issue of the same printing was published at Georgetown by J. Milligan) hardcover books
180345495London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Second enlarged edition. Large 4to pp. viii 3contents 1errata 610. Bound in contemporary full calf rebacked at an early time with the original spine laid down. Ownership signature on the endpaper of "N.W. Ridley Colborne" on the endpaper and "Horace W. Baddle 1859" on the top of the title page. Some light intermittant spotting and staining but a nice clean copy with wide margins. Garrison-Morton 1693; Carpenter XXXII 2; Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701; Mattioli 2207 See Printing and the Mind of Man # 251. The great quarto edition of Malthus' masterpiece a very important work in the field of economics and a source of Darwin's "idea of 'the struggle for existence'" PMM The ReverendThomas Robert Malthus FRS 1766 - 1834 was a British scholar influential in political economy and demography. He has become widely known for his theories concerning population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his Principles of Population published from 1798 to 1826 observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine disease and widespread mortality. The central idea is a simple one: that population expands geometrically while food production grows arithmetically. This edition though being the second may be considered as a new work which Malthus himself also claimed; -it is thoroughly revised and much enlarged nearly four times the length of the original essay the title has been changed the title of the first is merely: "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculation of Mr. Godwin M. Condorcet and Other Writers" He notes: "In the course of this inquiry I found that much more had been done than I had been aware of when I first published the essay. The poverty and misery arising from a too rapid increase of population had been distinctly seen and the most violent remedies proposed so long ago as the times of Plato and Aristotle. And of late years the subject had been treated in such a manner by some of the French economists occasionally by Montesquieu and among our own writers by Dr. Franklin Sir James Steuart Mr. Arthur Young and Mr. Townsend as to create a natural surprise that it had not excited more of the publick attention" Preface to the second edition p. IV. "The "Essay" was highly influential in the progress of thought in the early nineteenth-century Europe. "Parson" Malthus as Cobbett dubbed him was for many a monster and his views were often grossly misinterpreted. But his influence on social policy whether for good or evil was considerable. The Malthusian theory of population came at the right time to harden the existing feeling against the Poor Laws and Malthus was a leading spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834." PMM 251. Printed for J. Johnson, by T. Bensley unknown books
1809101490Washington: Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman 1809. First American edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo 2 volumes bound in contemporary calf rebacked red and black morocco spine labels gilt titles. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper "An application was made to Bishop Watson to answer this book on the grounds that it discouraged benevolence. He declined excusing himself however unfavorably saying that he saw its object was to prove that population could not increase beyond the level of rules of self-evident truth. A much better employment would have been to discover means of resistance that might supply the increasing wants of the population." Bishop Richard Watson served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816 and published a number of political pamphlets contributing to the Revolution Controversy regarding the fundamental politics of the French Revolution. Watson corresponded with and published several counterarguments to the works of Thomas Paine and Thomas Robert Malthus among others. In very good condition with some browning to the text as usual sporadic foxing. Rare and desirable. Malthus was one of the founders of modern economics. His Essay was originally the product of a discussion on the perfectibility of society with his father who urged him to publish. Thus the first edition published anonymously was essentially a fighting tract but later editions were considerably altered and grew bulkier as Malthus defended his views against a host of critics. The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early 19th-century Europe and his influence on social policy was considerable. Both Darwin and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as a source of the idea of 'the struggle for existence" PMM 251. Printed and Published by Roger Chew Weightman unknown books
180610970London: J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1806. Third Edition. Leather bound. Very good. The Third Edition of An Essay On the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus. Octavo two volumes xvi 505pp 70pp index; vii 559pp. Period full calf titles in gilt on spines over black labels gilt decorations on spines. Previous ownership inscriptions on front endpapers of both volumes. Bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper of Volume I. Leather is worn with some loss at top of spine of both volumes. Text block stable in both volumes general and even toning to leaves. Text block free of any marks or notations. Goldsmiths 19210 Kress B5067. The first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society was published anonymously by Malthus in 1798 as a pamphlet. The book received wide attention for Malthus's argument that hopes for human happiness are in vain because population will outrun the growth of production. He believed that the human population would continue to grow unchecked resulting in long term human poverty now known as the Malthusian Law of Population. Until this point fertility was viewed as a national imperative and a path to continued economic improvement. This work by Malthus changed the national mindset in Great Britain about childbearing. This work first appeared in book form in 1803 with this copy being the third edition published in 1806. J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard unknown books
1806236862London: Printed for T. Johnson 1806. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter calf; joints cracked two boards detached; rubbed and scuffed; scattered foxing throughout; withal a good serviceable copy. Third edition. xvi 505 1 blank 60 index pp.; vii 1 blank 559 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. GERITS: Third edition the first to be published in 2 volumes and the first published after the Great Quarto edition of 1803 of one of the most important and influential books in the history of economic thought. The third edition contained numerous revisions among which was a text entitled A Reply to the Chief Objections which have been urged against the Essay on the Principle of Population which was also published separately so that it might be bound with earlier ones. Kress B.5067; Goldsmiths 19210; Einaudi 3669; Carpenter Economic Bestsellers XXXII 3; PMM 251 for the first edition; Blaug Great Economists before Keynes p. 141ff Printed for T. Johnson unknown books
1815168217London: for John Murray; 1815. A major contribution to rent theory First edition first issue presentation copy inscribed in a secretarial hand "from the author" on the title page. The pamphlet is the first expression of Malthus's view for which he is credited as among the founders of the classical theory of rent. "Together with the population principle the theory of rent was one of the chief ideas contributed by Malthus to the re-evaluation of Smith's political economy which took place during the first decades of the nineteenth century" Winch p. 349. Malthus developed the idea from his lectures while professor of history and political economy at the East India College. Its publication grew out of a private debate between Malthus and Ricardo. In response Ricardo expounded on Malthus's ideas and their synthesis was the basis of English thought on rent for the rest of the century. The second issue names J. Johnson and Co. in the imprint. Provenance: with the bookplate of the Dutch economist Arnold Heertje 1934-2020. Octavo 207 x 127 mm pp. iv 62. Twentieth-century pink paper boards red morocco label to spine. Superficial split to front joint contents spotted. A good copy. Black 2877; Einaudi 3673; Goldsmiths' 21130; Hollander 2323; Kress B.6536; McCulloch p. 32. Donal Winch Riches and Poverty 1996. hardcover
