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(ECONOMICS.) Ricardo, David.
On the Principles of Political Economy,
and Taxation . . . Second Edition.
8vo, 19th-century
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tan calf gilt, spine darkened and
scuffed, extremities worn with some exposure; all edges stained yellow; 2 pages publisher’s
adverstisements at end; bookplate to front pastedown; internally quite clean.
London: John Murray, 1819
[2,000/3,000]
A classic in the literature of political economy, expounding the doctrine that in freely competitive
trade the labor expended in production determines the exchange value of commodities. “Ricardo
saw the study of economics as a pure science whose abstractions were capable of quasi-mathe-
matical proof.Although his theorems remain hypothetical, his deductive methods have proved of
great use in the elementary analysis of economic problems, and in the subjects which are capable
of his rigid analysis, currency and banking, it has proved of lasting value”—Printing and the
Mind of Man 277 (1817 original edition). With the armorial bookplate of the politician
Henry Drummond (1786-1860), who “though accustomed to attack the political economists . . .
in 1825 founded the professorship of political economy at Oxford. He was an enthusiastic sup-
porter and one of the founders of the Irvingite church, in which he held the rank of apostle,
evangelist, and prophet” (DNB).
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Real Life In London.
2 volumes. Hand-col-
ored frontispieces, titles, and 30 plates by Henry Alken,W. Heath,Thomas Rowlandson, and
others. 8vo, later tan polished calf, double gilt fillets, spines tooled in gilt, morocco lettering
pieces, rebacked, slightly mottled covers, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, byWallis; slightly
trimmed in rebinding, intermittent foxing though plates generally clean.
FIRST EDITIONS
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Abbey, Life 280;Tooley 198.
London: Printed for Jones and Co., 1821-22
[350/500]
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ELIOT, GEORGE.
Adam Bede.
3 volumes. Half-title in vol. 1 only, lacking
advertisements. 8vo, later blue-green full straight-grain morocco, covers gilt paneled, spines
gilt in compartments, by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt (light dust-soiling), few scattered
stray marks to covers, spines uniformly faded, corners bumped; Edward Huth armorial
bookplates to front pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION
. Sadleir 812.
Edinburgh and London:William Blackwood and Sons, 1859
[600/900]
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ELIOT, GEORGE.
Daniel Deronda.
4
volumes. Half-titles, lacking advertisements and
errata. 8vo, later blue-green full straight-grain
morocco, covers gilt paneled, spines gilt in com-
partments, by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, mild
discoloration to board extremities, spines faded on
last three volumes; Edward Huth armorial book-
plates to front pastedowns.
FIRST EDITION
in book
form. Eliot’s final novel. Sadleir 813.
Edinburgh and London:
William Blackwood and Sons, 1876
[500/750]
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ELIOT, GEORGE.
Felix Holt the
Radical.
3 volumes. Half-titles, 4-page publisher’s
advertisements at the end of volume 3. 8vo, original
cinnamon blindstamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered,
small line of wrinkling to spine of vol. 2, corners
slightly bumped; light foxing to endpapers.
Edinburgh and London:
William Blackwood and Sons, 1866
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
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Carter’s variant “D” binding.
Carter/BindingVariants, pp. 111-12; Sadleir 814.
