Views of Labour and Gold.

BARNES, William (1801-1886).

London: John Russell Smith, 1859. [Political Economy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 190 [18]. Partly unopened (with some leaves roughly opened); yellow-coated endpapers. Publisher's binding of blind-decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, binding by Bone and Son, London. Leaves heavily worn and soiled, with damp marks to margins. Final leaf of adverts badly battered, torn and creased. Both flyleaves removed. Blind stamp of a Dorchester Dentist to title page and Preface. Roughly re-cased. A fair but complete copy in an attractive cloth binding. A rare foray into Politics and Economics from the Poet, C of E Minister, and Philologist. Item #54463

Price: £250.00