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Edinburgh: Printed for Silvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Adam Black, and John Fairbairn [etc.], 1817. [Economics] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.x; lxvi; 360 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 514 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 448 [52]. With a life of the author to volume I, an appendix to..... More
London: J. Maynard and others, 1811. [Economics]FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.lxxi; 360; pp.vi; 514; pp.vi; 448; unpaginated index. Original marbled-calf boards, respined to style with gilt rules, black leather title labels, combed marble ends. Norman Court monogrammed leather book..... More
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1796. [Economics] EIGHTH EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 499 [3]; pp.[2] vi; 518 [6]; pp.vi; 465; [1]; [50]; [2], blank. Bound without half-titles. With an appendix to volume II, and an index..... More
Glasgow: At the University Press, 1805. [Economics] Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), [Vol.I] pp.[iv]; iv; lvi; 360; [Vol.II] pp.[ii]; iv; vi; 512; [4], Appendix; [Vol.III]; pp.[11]; ii; 448 [52], Index. Contemporary brown acid-stained patterned calf boards, re-backed to style circa 1890s in brown calf, with gilt titles..... More