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    By Adam Smith
    London   William Allason; J. Maynard; W. Blair
    9" by 6" 6, ix, lxv [2], 2-360; 514; 499pp
    A very smart early nineteenth century edition of Adam Smith's enormously influential work of classical economics.
    By Adam Smith

    1819 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

    London   William Allason; J. Maynard; W. Blair
    9" by 6" 6, ix, lxv [2], 2-360; 514; 499pp
    A very smart early nineteenth century edition of Adam Smith's enormously influential work of classical economics.
    £1,800.00
    : 3kgs / : 879F13
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    Leather Binding

    An attractive 1819 three volume edition of this work, which was first published in 1776.

    This edition includes a biography of the author - described by some as both 'The Father of Economics' and 'The Father of Capitalism' - and an essay in which 'A View of the Doctrine of Smith' is compared with that of the French economist Germain Garnier.

    Smith's work is widely held as perhaps the most influential and foundational text in the field of economics, laying the groundwork form modern economic thought and policy, and discussing matters including division of labour and the free market, and introducing the metaphor of 'the invisible hand'.

    A smart early nineteenth century edition of Smith's magnum opus, the first modern work to treat economics as a comprehensive system, and as an academic discipline.

    Condition

    In half calf bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Light fading to back strips, with light rubbing to joints and board perimeters, and a minor chip to the head of volume III back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned throughout, with significant spotting to first and last few leaves of each volume, and most concentrated throughout volumes I and II. Light tide marks to fore edge and tail of first nine leaves of volume II.

    Very Good

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