Of Population. An Enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on that Subject.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. 8vo (225 x 140 mm). Pages unopened after introduction. Original boards and paper spine label, housed in folding clamshell case. Condition: some light foxing, ink stain to p. ix, offset to endpaper from bookplate; vertical crack reaching two-thirds way down spine, horizontal crack to spine, short cracks in joints with chipping to paper, spine chipped at head with loss, light cornerwear. Provenance: Jonathan Hargreaves (bookplate); John Yudkin (modern booklabel). first edition in original boards with unopened pages; a clean and well preserved copy. Of Population is the last major work by the influential philosophical radical William Godwin The book is written as a response to Mr. Malthus, who believed that if population were to increase unchecked it would inevitably grow beyond the ability of the food supply to sustain it. Godwin, believing in the benevolence of humans, suggests that making more private land available for cultivation and improving the means of agriculture would curb the population problem. Sabin 27676; Kress C535; Goldsmiths' 22818.
Of Population. An Enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on that Subject.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. 8vo (225 x 140 mm). Pages unopened after introduction. Original boards and paper spine label, housed in folding clamshell case. Condition: some light foxing, ink stain to p. ix, offset to endpaper from bookplate; vertical crack reaching two-thirds way down spine, horizontal crack to spine, short cracks in joints with chipping to paper, spine chipped at head with loss, light cornerwear. Provenance: Jonathan Hargreaves (bookplate); John Yudkin (modern booklabel). first edition in original boards with unopened pages; a clean and well preserved copy. Of Population is the last major work by the influential philosophical radical William Godwin The book is written as a response to Mr. Malthus, who believed that if population were to increase unchecked it would inevitably grow beyond the ability of the food supply to sustain it. Godwin, believing in the benevolence of humans, suggests that making more private land available for cultivation and improving the means of agriculture would curb the population problem. Sabin 27676; Kress C535; Goldsmiths' 22818.
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