EDEN, Sir Frederic Morton (1766-1809). The State of the Poor: or, A history of the labouring classes in England .... London: J. Davis for B. and J. White G. G. and J. Robinson T. Payne, T. Egerton, J. Debrett, and D. Bremner, 1797. 3 volumes, 4° (268 x 205mm). Folding letterpress 'Conversion Table' between quires A and B of appendix. With the 'directions to the binder' leaf at end of volume III. (Lacking half-titles, some browning and spotting, generally light but stronger towards the end of vol. I and II, occasional small stains, 2P3r of the appendix soiled at margin.) Early 19th-century polished calf, gilt rule and roll tool border (neatly rebacked with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, corners bumped). FIRST EDITION OF EDEN'S GREAT SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY, published just one year before the first edition of Malthus's Essay on Population . While Eden was in favour of land enclosure, comparing the landscape of Great Britain with its 'immeasurable heaths, commons and wastes' to 'one of those huge unwieldy cloaks worn in Italy and Spain; of which a very small part is serviceable to the wearer,' and also mindful of the cost to the government of poor relief, believing 'no other kingdom, or country, has so expensive a national establishment for the maintenance of its poor,' he nevertheless saw very clearly the link between the growth of manufacturing industry and the creation of poverty ('Manufactures and commerce are the true parents of our national poor'). Like John Howard in The State of the Prisons , he was keenly aware of the need for field study, and the last two volumes of his work supply a mass of supporting evidence for his general views, presented in a statistical form that became a model for all subsequent enquiries into mass poverty. Goldsmiths' 17107; Kress B-3384; Norman 677; PMM 249. (2)
EDEN, Sir Frederic Morton (1766-1809). The State of the Poor: or, A history of the labouring classes in England .... London: J. Davis for B. and J. White G. G. and J. Robinson T. Payne, T. Egerton, J. Debrett, and D. Bremner, 1797. 3 volumes, 4° (268 x 205mm). Folding letterpress 'Conversion Table' between quires A and B of appendix. With the 'directions to the binder' leaf at end of volume III. (Lacking half-titles, some browning and spotting, generally light but stronger towards the end of vol. I and II, occasional small stains, 2P3r of the appendix soiled at margin.) Early 19th-century polished calf, gilt rule and roll tool border (neatly rebacked with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, corners bumped). FIRST EDITION OF EDEN'S GREAT SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY, published just one year before the first edition of Malthus's Essay on Population . While Eden was in favour of land enclosure, comparing the landscape of Great Britain with its 'immeasurable heaths, commons and wastes' to 'one of those huge unwieldy cloaks worn in Italy and Spain; of which a very small part is serviceable to the wearer,' and also mindful of the cost to the government of poor relief, believing 'no other kingdom, or country, has so expensive a national establishment for the maintenance of its poor,' he nevertheless saw very clearly the link between the growth of manufacturing industry and the creation of poverty ('Manufactures and commerce are the true parents of our national poor'). Like John Howard in The State of the Prisons , he was keenly aware of the need for field study, and the last two volumes of his work supply a mass of supporting evidence for his general views, presented in a statistical form that became a model for all subsequent enquiries into mass poverty. Goldsmiths' 17107; Kress B-3384; Norman 677; PMM 249. (2)
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