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1990mon0000369194Cambridge University Press 23/02/1990 00:00:01. paperback. Very Good. HARDBACK 2 Vol set. Cambridge University Press paperback
18265784691John Murray 1826. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Sixth edition. Medium 8vo with marbled boards and black leather half binding. Raised bands gilt lettering and gilt borders on backstrip. Bumped corners and some minor chipping and general wear. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
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. <br/><br/><em>The Great Quarto-edition of Malthus' milestone work the first and most influential book on population. Although being the second edition after the anonymously printed first of 1798 it is so significantly altered revised and expanded that it is considered a new work rather than a new edition. Malthus himself also thought of it as such. It is nearly four times the length of the 1798 essay the title has been changed the title of the first: "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" and it is published with Mathus' name as the author not anonymously. All later editions were minor revisions of this heavily expanded and altered second one. "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 controversial views because of which the work became so influential are most provocative and eyeopening in the second edition in which Malthus for instance for the first time advocates moral restraint meaning sexual abstinence and late marriage and elaborately explains his comparison between the increase of population and food. "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. Malthus was naturally condemned by Marx and Engels and opposed by the socialists universally but the work had an enormous impact on not only politics economics and social sciences but also on natural sciences. For instance both Darwin and Wallace considered Malthus a main source in their development of the theory of natural selection considering him a great philosopher and his Essay on Population one of the most important books ever. "Malthus’s idea of man’s "Struggle for existence" had decisive influence on Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. Other scientists related this idea to plants and animals which helped to define a piece of the evolutionary puzzle. This struggle for existence of all creatures is the catalyst by which natural selection produces the "survival of the fittest". Thanks to Malthus Darwin recognised the significance of intraspecies competition between populations of the same species e.g. the lamb and the lamb not just interspecies competition between species e.g. the lion and the lamb. Malthusian population thinking also explained how an incipient species could become a full-blown species in a very short timeframe." The second edition must be considered the most important of all the editions. This is far more a work on the problems of over-population than it is a response to Godwin and Condorcet on their works whic is the main concern of the first edition. "Not so much shocked by his own conclusions in his "Essay on Population" first ed. 1798 as driven by a naturally inquiring mind he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics and then published a second edition 1803." Catlin A History of the Political Philosophers 1939 p. 377. PMM 251 first edition. </em> hardcover
1116833352.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1807AQ28409London: Printed for J. Johnson.by T. Bensley 1807. In two volumes. xvi 580; vii 484pp 60. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf marbled paper boards contrasting green and tan calf lettering-pieces marbled edges. Lightly rubbed corners exposed. Hinges exposed later inked ownership inscription of Arthur Johnson to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I very occasional light spotting. The fourth edition greatly extended from the anonymous first of 1798 of this cornerstone of early studies of demography and an influential work in the history of political economy. Contrary to the prevailing Whig theory of history English cleric and scholar Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 argued that the agricultural output of modern Britain would not be able to support the rapid population growth witnessed in the eighteenth-century and thus that society would return to earlier subsistence levels following catastrophic outbreaks of disease and famine. The second edition of 1803 was substantially revised and extended to include observations made from European data and most notably the recognition that human agency and especially moral restraint could alleviate the plight of the poorest elements of society. The third edition of 1806 added an appendix in which Malthus replied to his many contemporary critics. This fourth edition incorporates all of the previous revisions and additions. Provenance: Arthur Henry Johnson 1845-1927 historian and chaplain of All Souls College Oxford; author of inter alia The history of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers of London Oxford 1914-22 and The disappearance of the small landowner Oxford 1909. . Fourth edition. 8vo. Printed for J. Johnson...by T. Bensley hardcover
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1995070005The Easton Press. A new leather bound hardcover; still in cellophane wrapping. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory. . New. Hardcover. 1995. The Easton Press hardcover
1025636171.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1798116955London: J. Johnson 1798. First edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Octavo bound in three quarters calf. Laid in is a clipping from an original manuscript signed by Malthus and entirely in his hand which reads in part "If at one time such a given product would make an effectual demand for certain commodities the conditions of the supply of which are supposed to remain the same it would immediately cease to make such effectual." Signed by Malthus in the lower right corner "Malthus." The verso features two further partial lines of text relating to supply and demand. In near fine condition. First editions of Malthus' magnum opus are exceptionally scarce. “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. J. Johnson unknown
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2008Q-0199540454Oxford University Press 2008-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
2007Q-0486456080Dover Publications 2007-07-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
104064London T. Bensley for J. Johnson 1806. . Third edition 2 vols 8vo xvi 501 63; vii 559 pp. contemporary tree calf gilt red morocco labels some pale foxing a very good set.<br /> The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions including replies to his critics.<br /><br />'The central idea of the essay -- and the hub of Malthusian theory -- was a simple one. The population of a community Malthus suggested increases geometrically while food supplies increased only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is checked by 'misery' -- that is the poorest sections of the community suffer disease and famine. The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early nineteenth-century Europe' PMM.<br /><br />'His work was an important influence on both Darwin and Wallace in their formulation of the concept of natural selection. It also had a profound influence on the decrease in size of families down to the present time' Garrison-Morton.<br /> Garrison-Morton 1693; Goldsmiths' 19210; Kress B5067; Cf. PMM 251. London, T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1806. unknown
1826149989London: John Murray 1826. The definitive text in original boards Sixth edition the final lifetime edition and the definitive text with Malthus's final revisions marking a significantly expanded and amended text from the first edition of 1798. The Essay is one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought and the foundation text of modern demography. 2 vols octavo. Original purple cloth-backed drab grey paper boards printed spine labels. Ownership signature dated 1882 to front free endpaper old price label to front cover of vol. II. Spines lightly sunned label of vol. II chipped with loss paper covering on front cover of vol. II peeling around front joint tips a little worn light foxing partly unopened. A very good copy. hardcover
180752022<p>HANDSOME COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BOLDLY SPECKLED CALF<br />2 vols. tall 8vo. iii-xvi 580; iii-viii 484 58 indexpp. contemporary boldly speckled calf smooth spines richly decorated in gilt in panels using two different designs black lettering and russet numbering labels gilt board edges gilt rolled spines a trifle chaffed at headbands some cracking at ends of some joints but overall a very nice copy.<br />Near contemporary pencilled shelf number "D198" of Lord Dunraven of Adare Manor Co. Limerick on endpaper.<br /><br />KRESS B5219<br />This is edition incorporates the substantial revisions and additions which Malthus had made for his third edition of 1806. They are listed and described in full in his preliminary 'Advertisement' to that edition also printed here. The most substantial of the changes made was that "The chapters which were the fourth and sixth of the second book are nearly rewritten on account of an error into which the author had fallen in an attempt to estimate the fruitfulness of marriages and the number born living to be married from the data in registers" 'Advertisement'. Furthermore he added as an appendix here vol.2 p.429-484 his important Reply to the Chief Objections to the second edition of 1803. This appendix he had also published separately in quarto "for the accomodation of the purchasers of the former edition" 'Advertisement'.Malthus recommends that "those who have not the leisure or inclination to read the entire work will find in the appendix such notice of its most prominent arguments as will give them a good general idea of the aim and bent of the whole". In it he writes "My object is to correct some of the misrepresentations which have gone abroad respecting two or three of the most important points of the Essay. . The first grand objection that has been made to my principles is that they contradict the original command of the Creator to increase and multiply and replenish the earth . The next grand objection which has been urged against me is my denial of the right of the poor to support. . and lastly and rather a matter of feeling than of argument. Many persons have accused him of excessive pessimism in throwing a darker shade over our views of human nature and tending particularly to narrow our prospects of future improvement". All of these objections he attempts to refute.<br />From the library of Edwin R. W. Wyndham-Quin Viscount Adare F.R.S. of Adare Manor Co. Limerick.</p> Printed for J. Johnson .. by T. Bensley hardcover
1346187452.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2011x-1616405708Cosimo Inc 2011. Paperback. New. 610 pages. 8.43x5.51x1.57 inches. Cosimo Inc paperback
1983Q-014043206XPenguin Classics 1983-06-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1999Q-0192837478Oxford University Press 1999-11-11. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
1890226775London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover; large 8vo; 614 pages. Scarce in this edition. Dark red cloth with gilt on spine textured cloth. Rubbed edges. Clean dark blue endpapers. "1890" in pen on title page some small pen marks in very few margins. Bright and clean interior. VG/-- <br/> <br/> Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
1584777281.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
199254027Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1992. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 392 pp. Octavo. 24 cm. Bound in navy leather with elaborate gilt ornamentation to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Gilt title stamped into spine with raised bands. Gold satin ribbon page marker laid in. Unused bookplate issued by publisher included. Corners slightly scuffed. Some scratching to gilt edges. Becoming increasingly more relevant Malthus' theories of economics outline the ways in which population exponentially increases while resources cannot creating chaos for the future of the human race. Easton Press unknown
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