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LAUDERDALE, James Maitland, Earl of (1759-1839). An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the means and causes of its increase. Edinburgh: A. Constable and T.N. Longman & O. Reese, 1804. 8° (226 x 140mm). Half-title, folding printed table at the end. Original boards, printed label on spine, uncut (upper cover loose, slightly worn). Provenance: James Carnegy Arbuthnot (signature, dated 1804, on an endpaper and on title).
FIRST EDITION of Lauderdale's work on economics which attracted considerable attention at the time and produced a bitter controversy between the author and Lord Brougham who reviewed it in the Edinburgh Review. Another edition appeared in1819 and a French edition in 1808. Kress B.4816; Goldsmiths' 18801.
FIRST EDITION of Lauderdale's work on economics which attracted considerable attention at the time and produced a bitter controversy between the author and Lord Brougham who reviewed it in the Edinburgh Review. Another edition appeared in1819 and a French edition in 1808. Kress B.4816; Goldsmiths' 18801.
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