SMITH, ADAM. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1776. 2 vols., 4to, approx. 300 x 240 mm. (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.), boards , UNCUT, morocco-backed folding case, (slightly rubbed), inscriptions on fore-corners of vol. 1 title and vol. 2 half-title cut away, vol. 1 title foxed and offset from an old insertion, catchwords on 3N4 and 3Q1 (vol. 1) punched out, marginal tears to U2 in vol. 1 and 2S3-4 in vol. 2, very occasional light foxing . FIRST EDITION, half-title in vol. 2 only as issued, with final blank leaf T4 in vol. 1, with the usual cancels (M3, U3, Zz3, 3A4 and 3O4 in vol. 1 and D1 in vol. 2), publisher's advertisement on 2:4F2v. Grolier English 47; Kress 7621; Rothschild 1897; Sabin 82303; Printing and the Mind of Man 221 ("The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought"). Provenance : Contemporary marginal note (a calculation) on 3Y1v (vol. 2), and price inscription on half-title -- Chichester Cathedral, bookplates and shelfmark labels on spines. (2)
SMITH, ADAM. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1776. 2 vols., 4to, approx. 300 x 240 mm. (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.), boards , UNCUT, morocco-backed folding case, (slightly rubbed), inscriptions on fore-corners of vol. 1 title and vol. 2 half-title cut away, vol. 1 title foxed and offset from an old insertion, catchwords on 3N4 and 3Q1 (vol. 1) punched out, marginal tears to U2 in vol. 1 and 2S3-4 in vol. 2, very occasional light foxing . FIRST EDITION, half-title in vol. 2 only as issued, with final blank leaf T4 in vol. 1, with the usual cancels (M3, U3, Zz3, 3A4 and 3O4 in vol. 1 and D1 in vol. 2), publisher's advertisement on 2:4F2v. Grolier English 47; Kress 7621; Rothschild 1897; Sabin 82303; Printing and the Mind of Man 221 ("The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought"). Provenance : Contemporary marginal note (a calculation) on 3Y1v (vol. 2), and price inscription on half-title -- Chichester Cathedral, bookplates and shelfmark labels on spines. (2)
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