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[MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT]. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society. With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and other writers. London: Printed for J. Johnson 1798. 8vo, 211 x 129mm. (8 5/16 x 5 1/16in.), contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with double gilt fillets and red morocco gilt-lettered label, corners worn, upper joint cracked; cloth box. FIRST EDITION, blue-tinted paper, errata on verso of A8, Q8 cancelled. Goldsmith 17268; Kress B 3693; McCulloch 259; PMM 251.
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[MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT]. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society. With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and other writers. London: Printed for J. Johnson 1798. 8vo, 211 x 129mm. (8 5/16 x 5 1/16in.), contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with double gilt fillets and red morocco gilt-lettered label, corners worn, upper joint cracked; cloth box. FIRST EDITION, blue-tinted paper, errata on verso of A8, Q8 cancelled. Goldsmith 17268; Kress B 3693; McCulloch 259; PMM 251.
"Malthus...was one of the founders of modern economics....The central idea of the essay -- and the hub of Malthusian theory -- was a simple one. The population of a community, Malthus suggested, increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically....Malthus recognized two other possible checks to population expansion: first 'vice' -- that is homosexuality, prostitution and abortion...and second 'moral restraint' -- the voluntary limitation of the production of children by the postponement of marriage" -- Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: Occasional contemporary pencilled notes and comments, trimmed by the binder.
"Malthus...was one of the founders of modern economics....The central idea of the essay -- and the hub of Malthusian theory -- was a simple one. The population of a community, Malthus suggested, increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically....Malthus recognized two other possible checks to population expansion: first 'vice' -- that is homosexuality, prostitution and abortion...and second 'moral restraint' -- the voluntary limitation of the production of children by the postponement of marriage" -- Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: Occasional contemporary pencilled notes and comments, trimmed by the binder.
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