ISBN10: 0521247756, ISBN13: 9780521247757, [publisher: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, Cambridge; London] Hardcover First Edition 1989. 2 volume set. PP lxix, 601; [vii], 507. "Published in two volumes or as a set this provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. It contains the full text of the first 1820 edition, including Malthus's own invaluable 70-page summary, and contains details of all the additions, omissions and emendations that occurred between the first and the second, posthumous, edition of 1836. The first edition is extremely rare, and for over 150 years confusions and disagreements have inevitably occurred in the interpretation of Malthus's economics because of the absence of any systematic record of the differences between the two editions. The editor has written a lengthy and authoritative introduction giving an account, derived mainly from contemporary correspondence, of the events and circumstances surrounding the publication of the two editions. It shows the relationship between the Principles and Malthus's other writings and activities as a political economist. There is also an editorial commentary that aims to explain the significance and origin of the alterations." Original publisher's brown cloth with titles to spines and upper boards. The books are in excellent condition with no inscriptions. The unclipped dust jackets have just ...

ISBN10: 0521247756, ISBN13: 9780521247757, [publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]] Hardcover 23,5cm Gewebe (Brauner Leinen). Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Sehr Gut, eher ungelesen; Schutzumschlag fehlt, oder es gibt keinen; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.
[Gummersbach, NRW, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]
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