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The Logic of Political Economy

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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. First edition. ix, [i], 260pp. With 4pp. advts. at back. 8vo. From the library of Gulian C. Verplanck and with his ownership signature on front board. Publisher's drab boards, green cloth shelf-back original paper spine label; slightly cocked, corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to boards, chipping to paper label with loss of a few letters; moderate foxing to end papers and title page. Sound and internally generally clean in uncommonly well preserved in original boards. First edition. ix, [i], 260pp. With 4pp. advts. at back. 8vo. Thomas De Quincey, 1775-1859. Pursuing ever more transgressive excursions after his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and his On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827), De Quincey turned his attention to the concepts of value, wages, rent, and profit.

Gulian C. Verplanck, 1786-1870, American attorney, politician, writer, member of U. S. House of Representatives for New York, Chairman Of the House Ways and Means committee, contributed articles & poetry to the North American Review, among the founders of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, helping to establish New York City as a center for the arts. Einaudi 1535; Goldsmiths' 33558; Green 152; Kress C.6279; McCulloch, p. 20; Morrison pp. 321-4; 336; 3
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  • Publisher William Blackwood and Sons
  • Place of Publication Edinburgh and London
  • Date Published 1844
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons,, 1844. Presentation copy from the publishers First edition, inscribed "from the publishers" on the front free endpaper verso. The Logic of Political Economy, De Quincey's exposition of Ricardian economics, is the author's principal economic work. The work, compiled from a series of papers by his publisher, discusses the relative influence of utility and scarcity, with the former described as affirmative or power value, and the latter as negative or resistance value. De Quincey's essay received a glowing review from John Stuart Mill. Octavo. Original blue cloth, printed spine label, cream coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. Pencil ownership signature of Samuel B. Lyon to front pastedown, dated 14 March 1863. Spine sunned with small hole to label, minor edgewear, joint and hinges intact, light rubbing, contents clean without marking. A very good copy. Einaudi 1535; Goldsmiths' 33558; Green 152; Kress C.6279; McCulloch, p. 20; Morrison pp. 321-4; 336; 393.
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