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McCULLOCH, John Ramsay (1789-1864). The Principles of Political Economy. Edinburgh: for W. and C. Tait: and Longman and Co London, 1825. 8°. Half-title (without the leaf of advertisements, a little foxing, especially towards the end, a few pencilled markings and marginalia). Later 19th-century half calf (spine rather faded). Provenance: Charles William Hamilton (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of a work which began life in 1822 as the first substantial article on political economy to appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and which McCulloch submitted to Ricardo for the latter's approval as he had done with nearly all of his works since his first essay into print ten years previously. On Ricardo's death in 1823, J.S. Mill and his friends raised enough funds to endow a Ricardo memorial lectureship on political economy for ten years and ensured that McCulloch would be the first incumbent. The Principles which grew out of the article and his lectures were eventually translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Carpenter XXXVIII (1); Einaudi 3567; Goldsmiths' 24417; Kress C.1489.
FIRST EDITION of a work which began life in 1822 as the first substantial article on political economy to appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and which McCulloch submitted to Ricardo for the latter's approval as he had done with nearly all of his works since his first essay into print ten years previously. On Ricardo's death in 1823, J.S. Mill and his friends raised enough funds to endow a Ricardo memorial lectureship on political economy for ten years and ensured that McCulloch would be the first incumbent. The Principles which grew out of the article and his lectures were eventually translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. Carpenter XXXVIII (1); Einaudi 3567; Goldsmiths' 24417; Kress C.1489.
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