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1803réf. 924F45DLondon: J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". None. The important and heavily revised second edition of Thomas Robert Malthus's discussion of the problems of a growing human population. First published in 1798 this is the substantially revised enlarged and re-written second edition of Malthus's important work.Malthus's work - which posits that the human population will outgrow the supply of food and resources - fuelled the debate on the size of the British population and contributed to the passion of the Census Act of 1800.A key argument within the book was dedicated to what is now known as the Malthusian Law of Population theorising that growing population rates will lead to a rising supply of labour inevitably lowering wages and leading to poverty.With the armorial bookplate of James Frampton to the front pastedown along side the former owner's ink inscription of N.B. Hobbs. Hobbs's inscription is also present to the recto of a front blank.This second edition incorporated details of population controls that had been used in various countries and periods. In a contemporary calf binding with light rubbing to boards. Minor loss to tail of spine label. Hinges neatly repaired. Retaining the original endpapers. Bookplate and inscription to front pastedown with further inscription to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Significant spotting to endpapers and to first and final leaves. Pages bright with scattered further areas of concentrated spotting throughout. Very Good J. Johnson, by T. Bensley hardcover
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2007réf. x-1602068623Cosimo Inc 2007. Hardcover. New. 324 pages. 8.60x5.60x1.20 inches. Cosimo Inc hardcover
2011réf. x-1616405708Cosimo Inc 2011. Paperback. New. 610 pages. 8.43x5.51x1.57 inches. Cosimo Inc paperback
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1817réf. 172742London: 1817. Second edition of Malthus's defence of the East-India Company's College at Haileybury his home from 1805-1834 offprinted from The Pamphleteer Vol. IX number XVIII and published the same year as the first. Malthus taught as professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury from its inception to his own death training generations of EIC management. By 1816 the College was attracting criticism both for its virtual monopoly on Indian Civil Service training and for the actual quality of its teaching. A series of student disturbances throughout 1816 provided the immediate occasion for Malthus's defence which outlines a thorough analysis of the College's work as the best solution to the immediate demands of the Indian subcontinent. Octavo. Pp. 469-523 1. Disbound. Light browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy. unknown
1827réf. 195032London: John Murray 1827. One of the earliest works on the methodology of economics First edition of "a valiant attempt to resolve differences of opinion in political economy by codifying its terminology and establishing rules for the definition of terms. It could be regarded as one of the earliest works on the methodology of economics" ODNB. Malthus devotes separate chapters to among others the French economists Adam Smith Say Ricardo James Mill McCulloch and Samuel Bailey although the latter's name was not known to him. The work is bound with an offprint of J. R. McCulloch's hostile review of the work from the Scotsman 10 March 1827 in which McCulloch questions Malthus's qualifications for the office of "Dictator in the Economical Republic". Octavo 193 x 114 mm. Complete with half-title without terminal colophon. Recent brown calf spine lettered gilt marbled endpapers cloth hinge supports marbled edges. Library stamp "National City Library Jan 15 1921" to title page offsetting to half-title. Slight chip to corner of front free endpaper p. 3 with faint offset where the original title label was inserted some light foxing. A good copy. Goldsmiths' 25180; Kress C.1924. hardcover
1807réf. 185282London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1807. Though his theories were so cruel his heart and manners were most kindly and courteous Second edition presented and inscribed by Thomas Malthus: "East India College Awarded to Mr John Trotter at the Public Examination of December 1817 as the first of his Class in Political Economy T. Rob. Malthus". Malthus taught as professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury from 1805 to his death in 1834 training generations of EIC management. Writing many years later a former student recalled "We called him Pop; not in derision for we had a great but rather distant respect for him. Though his theories were so cruel his heart and manners were most kindly and courteous" quoted in Maureen Alexander Turner p. 54. John Trotter 1800-1825 entered the college in 1816 and subsequently joined the EIC; he died seven years later aboard the Royal George just off Penang in Malaya which was then an EIC port. Trotter was the son of Alexander Trotter d. 1842 the financially imaginative paymaster of the Royal Navy. His engraved armorial bookplate is in both volumes; Malthus's ink inscription is on the front free endpaper verso. The History of the Anglo-Saxons by Sharon Turner 1768-1847 was originally published from 1799 to 1805. It quickly became "a powerful influence on historical thought for the succeeding half-century" ODNB and remains acknowledged as a turning point in Anglo-Saxon studies and a benchmark in historiography. Writing with a clear eye on the British Empire of his own day - in which Trotter's East India Company played so prominent a role - Turner presents the Anglo-Saxons as central to the historical development that set England on its imperial course. 2 vols quarto 271 x 213 mm pp. x 499 1; viii 472 8. Large hand-coloured engraved folding map by Neele showing "Territory inhabited by the Ancient Saxons north of the Elbe" as frontispiece of vol. I. Contemporary calf rebacked spines ruled and lettered in gilt covers with double-rule panel in gilt crest of the East India Company College blocked in gilt to centre turn-ins in blind marbled endpapers edges sprinkled in brown and red. Light rubbing extremities neatly restored infrequent damp staining to otherwise clean contents short closed tear to inner margin of folding map: just about a very good copy. Maureen Alexander Turner The Educational Ideas and Influence of Thomas Robert Malthus 1766-1834 University of Glasgow Department of Education PhD thesis 1991. unknown
1803réf. 62792London 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. 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. hardcover
2019réf. 1-3337756328hansebooks 2019. Paperback. New. 8.46x5.98x1.06 inches. hansebooks paperback
1803réf. 182784London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. Malthus softens his conclusions The Great Quarto edition notionally the second edition following the first of 1798 but so substantially enlarged rewritten and re-titled as to be effectively a new book. The Essay was one of the most influential works in the history of economic thought arguing the link between food supply and population size and the inevitability of famine and suffering once population exceeded its limits. "For today's readers living in a post-Malthus era the world's population problems are well known and serious but no longer sensational. It is difficult therefore to appreciate the radical and controversial impact made by the Essay at the time of publication. It challenged the conventional notion that population growth is an unmixed blessing. It discussed prostitution contraception and other sexual matters. And it gave vivid descriptions of the horrendous consequences of overpopulation and of the brutal means by which populations are checked" ODNB. In the second edition Malthus "made clear what was only implicit in the first that prudential restraint should if humanly possible be 'moral restraint' - that is delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' by arguing that moral restraint if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness" ODNB. Quarto 269 x 205 mm pp. viii 4 610. Contemporary tree calf rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down spine gilt in compartments with black morocco label. Twentieth-century bookplate of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest. Scattered light foxing else a very good copy. Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701. unknown
1806réf. ZB1325657London: J. Johnson 1806. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item 2 vols. xvi 505 58 index vii 559 pp. contemporary full leather bindings now dry and worn a few areas of the spine of the first volume now lacking the leather covering masonic library and private book plate to the front paste down of each volume scant foxing else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: J. Johnson hardcover
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1998réf. x-0521581389Cambridge Univ Pr 1998. Hardcover. New. 140 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
1997réf. x-0714647500Frank Cass & Co 1997. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 151 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. Frank Cass & Co hardcover
1815réf. 168217London: for John Murray; 1815. A major contribution to rent theory First edition first issue presentation copy inscribed in a secretarial hand "from the author" on the title page. The pamphlet is the first expression of Malthus's view for which he is credited as among the founders of the classical theory of rent. "Together with the population principle the theory of rent was one of the chief ideas contributed by Malthus to the re-evaluation of Smith's political economy which took place during the first decades of the nineteenth century" Winch p. 349. Malthus developed the idea from his lectures while professor of history and political economy at the East India College. Its publication grew out of a private debate between Malthus and Ricardo. In response Ricardo expounded on Malthus's ideas and their synthesis was the basis of English thought on rent for the rest of the century. The second issue names J. Johnson and Co. in the imprint. Provenance: with the bookplate of the Dutch economist Arnold Heertje 1934-2020. Octavo 207 x 127 mm pp. iv 62. Twentieth-century pink paper boards red morocco label to spine. Superficial split to front joint contents spotted. A good copy. Black 2877; Einaudi 3673; Goldsmiths' 21130; Hollander 2323; Kress B.6536; McCulloch p. 32; Sraffa 1438. Donald Winch Riches and Poverty 1996. hardcover
1807réf. 60615Altona J.F. Hammerich 1807. 8vo. 2 volumes both uncut in the original blank wrappers. Wear to extremities front wrapper on vol. 1 detached and with tear. Missing ab. half of the paper on spines. Internally fine and clean. XVI 368; VIII 358 1 pp. Rare first German edition of this political and economic classic which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace. It is the first translation of the "Principle on Population" into any language and it influenced German politics tremendously.The first edition was printed anonymously in London in 1798 and in 1803 the second edition which also according to Malthus himself can be said to constitute a new work appeared; -the great quarto edition from 1803 is thoroughly revised and much enlarged the title has been changed and Malthus' name appears on the title-page for the first time it is on this edition that all the preceding editions are based and in consequence also the early translations. All the later editions were minor revisions of the second one. In 1806 the third edition appeared and as soon as 1807 the first German one which is translated from the revised third edition "Die gegenwärtige Uebersetzung ist nach der dritten Ausgabe Oktav London 1806. Die Quartausgabe ist minder vollständig" Vorwort p. V. New revisions of the text kept appearing till the sixth edition in 1826. The book then as now is considered highly controversial and it has influenced all demographers ever since as well as being of immense importance to the study of economic theory and genetic inheritance. "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. Of course he was condemned by Marx and Engels and opposed by the socialists universally but the work was of immense impact on not only politics economics social sciences etc but also on natural sciences. "Later in the "Origin of Species" he Darwin wrote that the struggle for existence "is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food and no prudential restraint from marriage" p. 63. Alfred Russel Wallace who arrived at a worked-out formulation of the theory of evolution at almost precisely the same time as Darwin acknowledged that "perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's "Principles of Population" My Life p. 232. Although there were four decennial censuses before Malthus' death he did not himself analyze the data although he did influence Lambert Quetelet and Pierre Verhulst who made precise statistical studies on growth of populations in developed countries and showed how the early exponential growth changed to an S curve." DSB IX p. 69. As Malthus realized that his theories were not satisfactorily presented or sufficiently demonstrated in the first edition from 1798 he travelled for three years through Europe gleaning statistics and then published the second edition in 1803. Among other places he travelled through Northern Germany and his detailed diaries of these journeys provided him with some of the evidence necessary for the development of his theory on population growth. The observational information that he gathered on his travels in Europe were crucial to the development of his theories which also means that the work is of great interest for other European countries and not only Britain. "In 1819 the Royal Society elected Malthus to a fellowship. He was also a member of the French Institute and the Berlin Academy and a founding member of the Statistical Society 1834." DSB IX p. 67. Printing and the Mind of Man 251 first edition. unknown
1853réf. 133496London: Simpkin and Marshall 1853. Presentation copy to the editor of The Economist Second edition presentation copy of Malthus's Definitions edited and with a new preface notes and additional remarks by John Cazenove 1788-1879 an intimate friend and protégé of Malthus who described him as "a very clever man and good political economist." Cazenove's writings are "a worthwhile contribution to political economy in their own right and an important part of the anti-Ricardian tradition" New Palgrave. This copy is inscribed on the half-title: "To the Editor of The Economist with Mr Cazenove's Comps." The founder and first editor of The Economist was James Wilson 1805-1860 a businessman economist and Liberal politician who continued as editor until 1857. Octavo. Original green cloth printed paper label to front board yellow coated endpapers. Pencil annotation to one or two pages. Spine ends and corners rubbed joints with short splits to extremities occasional marginal finger marks: a very good copy. Sraffa 3702. hardcover
1820réf. 168311London: John Murray 1820. In the original boards First edition of the author's major late work a re-examination of his economic work in the early 1800s and a point-by-point response to David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy 1817. Notably Keynes held that "if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove the world would be a much wiser and richer place" ODNB. In the Principles Malthus summarizes his earlier writing on rents currency food prices and corn laws. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo with whom he disagreed about the nature of labour demand and profit. "In his Principles of Political Economy Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation he thought must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" DSB. In the 20th century the Principles received recognition "largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics" ODNB. This copy includes an extremely early reback presumably by the original bookseller. The reback preserves the original blue boards while a section has been cut from the cloth backstrip to expose the original printed label. Octavo. Uncut in original blue boards early reback in brown cloth preserving original printed paper label. Circular "Y.S." ink stamp to title. Light bumping and wear moderate foxing to endpapers and contents front hinge cracked and lacking front free endpaper holding firm slight separations between and within several gatherings small hole to head of K4: a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 22767; Kress C.577; Mattioli 2221. hardcover
réf. 64429London: for J. Johnson St. Paul's Church-Yard By T. Bensley 1806. Demography FIRST TWO VOLUME EDITION. Octavos 22 x 14 x 8cm pp.xvi; 505; 63 pp.viii; 559; 1. Brown half calf marbled paper over boards. Gilt ruling and red labels containing gilt titles to spines. All edges speckled blue. Interior relatively bright and clean a few leaves spotted/marked. Infrequent pencil annotations throughout each volume. Small ownership inscription in both volumes to a front blank leaf. Toning to corners of all endpapers. Marbled boards rubbed some wear to calf spines and extremities. Very good. Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS 1766-1834 known as Thomas Malthus or Robert Malthus his preference was an English demographer and political economist. He is best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth. In 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' 1798 Malthus made the famous prediction that population would outrun food supply leading to a decrease in food per person. London: for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, By T. Bensley, 1806 unknown
1820réf. 151433London: John Murray 1820. First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo with whom he had been having an ongoing debate about the nature of labour demand and profit. "In his 'Principles of Political Economy' Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation he thought must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" DSB. "The Principles had only a limited impact at the time and was severely criticized by J. R. McCulloch and Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received greater recognition largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove the world would be a much wiser and richer place" ODNB. Octavo. Uncut and unopened in the original drab paper-backed blue boards printed paper spine label. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Engraved book plate "Bibliothèque de Mr de Barante" to front pastedown paper library shelf label to foot of spine. Head of spine chipped front joint cracked rear joint cracked at head spine label a little chipped all still very strong; a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 22767; Kress C.577. hardcover
1806réf. 156997London: for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1806. The foundation text of modern demography Third edition the first edition to be published in two octavo volumes the format which was to remain the standard in Malthus's lifetime. This third edition has important alterations and additions particularly the appendix in which Malthus replied to some of his many critics; it follows the first edition of 1798 in a single octavo volume and the expanded second edition in quarto in 1803. Malthus's treatise on population is one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought and the foundation text of modern demography. "For today's readers living in a post-Malthus era the world's population problems are well known and serious but no longer sensational. It is difficult therefore to appreciate the radical and controversial impact made by the Essay at the time of publication. It challenged the conventional notion that population growth is an unmixed blessing. It discussed prostitution contraception and other sexual matters. And it gave vivid descriptions of the horrendous consequences of overpopulation and of the brutal means by which populations are checked" ODNB. Despite its unpopularity with liberal critics Malthus's principle of population became accepted as a central tenet of classical political economy and Charles Darwin acknowledged Malthus's influence in the development of his theory of natural selection. 2 vols octavo 209 x 128 mm. Bound without half-titles. Recent half calf red morocco label marbled sides. A few contemporary annotations in vol. II. Repairs to closed tears at head of A7 and A8 into text without loss slight sporadic spotting light dampstaining at lower outer corner of vol. II towards rear. A very good copy. Einaudi 3689; Goldsmiths' 19210; Kress B5067. unknown
1817réf. 157003London: John Murray 1817. The foundation text of modern demography Fourth edition of Malthus's Essay first published in 1798 one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought and the foundation text of modern demography. 2 vols octavo 203 x 126 mm. With half-titles. Contemporary calf spines lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature to title pages bookplate of one C. W. Clementine dated 1901 to front pastedowns. Slight scratch to rear cover of vol. I endpapers toned and a little soiled slight worming in fore margin of vol. II not affecting text an excellent copy in a well-preserved contemporary binding. unknown
1803réf. 156812London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley 1803. A classic of economic thought significantly expanded The Great Quarto edition notionally the second edition of the Essay on Population published in 1798 but so substantially enlarged rewritten and re-titled as to be a new book. "In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay incorporating details of the population checks that had been in operation in many different countries and periods. Although nominally a second edition it was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work. He did not claim originality for the idea that population tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to the second edition he stated that in writing the first edition he had deduced the principle of population from the writings of David Hume Robert Wallace Adam Smith and Richard Price but that in the intervening period he had become aware that much more had been published on the subject. He nevertheless believed that even more remained to be done especially in describing the means by which populations are checked and in drawing out the practical implications of the principle of population. In the second edition he made clear what was only implicit in the first that prudential restraint should if humanly possible be 'moral restraint' - that is delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' Essay on the Principle of Population 1st edition 1798 p. iv and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' 2nd edition 1803 p. vii by arguing that moral restraint if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness" ODNB. Quarto. Uncut in the original boards manuscript lettering to spine. Housed in a custom solander box with red label. Neat 20th-century ownership label to front pastedown. Joints and corners worn some expert reconsolidation to binding horizontal tear to head of title neatly repaired without loss and short vertical tear to lower margin of the same; a very good copy. Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths' 18640; Kress B.4701. hardcover
