PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 271; Kress B.6194; Goldsmith Cat. 20854; University of London Library, Robert Owen Exhibition (1958) no. 29.

'Owen's first and most important published work containing the principles upon which he based his educational and social reforms at New Lanark and an outline of the means by which his theories might be applied to the nation as a whole'.

The first Essay was published by Cadell & Davies in 1813, the second the same year; the third and fourth were printed by R.& A.Taylor, for private circulation only in 1814.