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Adam SmithBiblio.com

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Smith AdamBiblio.com

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

181127288London: J. Maynard.Haymarket; and F. Zinke.Strand 1811. 3 volumes. Very early printing. This printing now with an Account of the Life of the Author which has been specially drawn up for the first time as well as studies on the author and the French economists of the period and a method of facilitating the study of the work. 8vo bound in very handsome and well preserved three-quarter contemporary polished calf over cloth covered boards compartments of the spines decorated with gilt decorated raised bands bordering decorations tooled in blind one compartment lettered in gilt one with maroon morocco lettering label gilt. lxxi 360; vi 512 513-514 appendix; vi 448 50 pp.extensive index. An especially bright and fine set in very handsome and well preserved contemporary bindings. The text remains very clean crisp and fresh. There has been no restoration work of any sort to bindings or text. Rare thus. AN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK. Eighteenth century editions of Smith’s magnum opus are becoming very scarce. This edition of 1811 is a very early English printing of the nineteenth century still in 18th century style. It retains Smith’s introduction and also incorporates the author’s advertisements to the third and fourth editions and a new advertisement to this edition setting out the additions made to the preliminary materials for this edition. ‘The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory – the physiocrats had already suggested it and Turgot in particular had constructed an organised study of social wealth – his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange: "labour is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities … it is their real price; money is their nominal price only". Labour represents the three essential elements – wages profit and rent – and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy Smith passes to its matter – "stock" – which compasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development a definite onslaught on the mercantile system and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control. ‘Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore Smith’s achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work … The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought’ PMM. Smith's classic work was begun at Toulouse in 1763-64 where he had travelled as guardian of Henry Scott the young duke of Buccleuch and in the company of David Hume historian and fellow professor at Glasgow University. The work took shape over the next ten years and was finally published in 1776. At one point during its composition Hume wrote that Smith was "cutting himself off entirely from human society." But his labors however severe his methods yielded the "first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" Printing and the Mind of Man. "It may be said that the WEALTH OF NATIONS certainly operated powerfully through the harmony of its critical side with the tendencies of the half-century which followed its publication to the assertion of personal freedom and 'natural rights.' It discredited the economic policy of the past and promoted the overthrow of institutions which had come down from earlier times but were unsuited to modern society. As a theoretic treatment of social economy and therefore as a guide to social reconstruction and practice in the future it is provisional not definitive. But when the study of its subject comes to be systematized on the basis of a general social philosophy more complete and durable than Smith's no contribution to that final construction will be found so valuable as his" Britannica J. Maynard...Haymarket; and F. Zinke...Strand hardcover

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SMITH, Adam (1723-1790); John Ramsay M'CULLOCH (1789-1864)Biblio.com

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.With a Life of the Author an Introductory Discourse Notes and Supplemental Dissertations. Fourth Edition Corrected and Improved

185041312Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black;: and Longman Brown Brown Green & Longmans London 1850. 8 3/4 x 5 9/16 inches. Half-title Title vi i-lxvi 1-685 advertisement leaves. Largely uncut and unopened. Illustrated with two portraits of Smith by Scottish engravers Robert Charles Bell 1806-1872 and John Kay 1742-1826. In brown cloth with decorative blind tooling spine gilt. Slight wear to the top and bottom of spines. Few works cast as long and enduring a shadow as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in the pantheon of economics theory and beyond. Originally authored in the throes of the Enlightenment Wealth of Nations remains an intellectual colossus a foundational treatise that paved the pathways of modern economics. Its exploration of market dynamics the "invisible hand" and the division of labour presents core concepts that weave through the epochs of economic thought. The present edition published in Edinburgh in 1850 contains contributions by John Ramsay M'Culloch an economist and a luminary of his own time. In his 'Introductory Discourse' M'Culloch comprehensively contextualized Smith's magnum opus with portraits of political science before the time of publication upon publication and after the publication of Wealth of Nations thus emphasising its discipline-defining significance and connecting eras of economic contemplation. In his analysis of the "Progress of economy since the publication of the Wealth of Nations" M'Culloch demonstrated how the work reverberated with his own era's questions and dialogues by responding to his contemporaries such as Thomas Robert Malthus Jean-Baptiste Say and David Ricardo. In doing so M'Culloch reminded readers of the enduring value of Smith's work to serve as a guide to the ever-present and ever-pressing dilemma: how to make a capitalist economy more humane and more meaningful. and Longman, Brown, Brown, Green & Longmans, London unknown

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SMITH, AdamBiblio.com

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

1801177821Dublin: Printed by N. Kelly and William Porter for P. Wogan Gilbert and Hodges W. Porter J. Moore and B. Dornin 1801. Political economy and the Anglo-Irish union Fourth Irish edition of the "first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" PMM in a handsome contemporary Irish binding. Towards the end of the Wealth of Nations Smith outlines an expansive and audacious plan for the political-economic consolidation of the British Empire. In this plan Ireland was to be united with Great Britain in a move largely modelled on the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707. Smith stresses the political and economic benefits to the Irish anticipating that the move would end British trade restrictions and even neutralize the fractious nature of Irish politics. Ironically Smith's wider theories of political economy in the Wealth of Nations were often co-opted by Irishmen diametrically opposed to his political proposals most notably the United Irishman Arthur O'Connor 1763-1852 whose approach to democratic land reform was "a radicalised version of Smith's political economy" Andersen. The United Irishmen mounted a rebellion in 1798 the failure of which led to precisely the Anglo-Irish union advocated by Smith. This fourth Irish edition was the first to be published in the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols octavo 204 x 131 mm pp. xiii 1 498; viii 489. 61; lacking blank A1 in vol. II. Tables in the text. Contemporary red straight-grain sheep spines lettered ruled and decorated in gilt covers panelled in gilt marbled endpapers. With 1824 prize inscription in Latin to fourth blank of vol. I. Extremities refurbished light scuffing faint sunning to spines minor foxing and offsetting to contents leaf P6 of vol. II with 7 cm closed tear touching text: a very good copy. Kress B.4448; Tribe 75; Vanderblue p. 20. L. S. Andersen "The Political Economy of Ireland and Its Counterfactuals: Review of James Strafford The Case of Ireland: Commerce Empire and the European Order 1750-1848 CUP 2022" History of European Ideas vol. 50 no. 1 2023. unknown

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SMITH, AdamBiblio.com

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a Life of the Author. Also A View of the Doctrine of Smith Compared with that of the French Economists; With a Method of Facilitating the Study of his Works from the French of M. Garnier. 3 vols set

1812QQ0269Willam Baynes 1812. ~Original half green polished calf over marbled boards low raised bands and blind and gilt decor to spines. Replacement brown gilt leather spine labels. Sunning to spines; some rubbing to boards. Mild wear to board corners. All edges speckled red top edges darkened. Small ink spot to fore-edges of vol. I. Front endpaper of vol. I cracked at gutter. 8vos 14 x 22.1cm. Some foxing largely to early and late pages. Inscription in old hand to front free endpaper of each vol.: 'Wroth / Edlesborough / Dunstable / Beds': almost certainly the Rev'd William Bruton Wroth Vicar of Edlesborough from 1815 to his death in 1863. A little pencil sidelining to vol. I; pencil doodle of pipe-smoking man to vol. I p. xlix. Includes Advertisements to the third fourth and 'present' editions at front of vol. I though in fact the 'present edition' Advertisement 'follows the 1806 edition exactly in stating the novelty of prefixing an account of Smith’s ‘Studies and Doctrines’ to an edition of Smith' Tribe. Also as per Tribe '"A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Dr. Adam Smith" pp. i-xxxiv here is the one that originally appeared in 1806 revised as in the Edinburgh 1809 edition excising the quotations in criticism of Playfair but also with a new section added on the end which refers to Smith’s character and then two-thirds down p. xxxiii becoming a straight plagiarism of Dugald Stewart as in EPS Essays on Philosophical Subjects'. An early edition of Smith's classic 1776 work which 'had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading critical and adulatory long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry' ODNB. Tribe 108. ~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 5th edition. Very Good/Fine. lxxii 360 vi 514 vi 448 50pp. Willam Baynes Hardcover

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