smith adam jeremiah joyce (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Reprinted, with Additions, from the Third Edition of Jeremiah Joyce's Abridgement. Revised and Edited by Wolsely P. Emerton. Part I. Books I. and II.; Part II. Books III, IV, and V. First Emerton edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. xvi, 159, [1], 12 [publisher's advertisements dated 'June 1882']; x, 209, [3], [publisher's advertisements dated 'May 1880'] pp. Original red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, covers with blind fillet borders, printed endpapers to Vol. 1 (neat contemporary ownership inscriptions of 'H.R. Stokoe' to front flyleaves of both volumes; only light shelf wear to extremities, otherwise an excellent set). Oxford, James Thornton. The first Wolseley P. Emerton edition of what started life as the first ever précis of the Wealth of Nations, edited by Jeremiah Joyce and originally published in 1797. Joyce's abridgement was brought up-to-date for students of the University of Oxford by Emerton, who 'completely recast' Joyce's version 'with whole passages substituted, sometimes drafted by Emerton and sometimes taken from paraphrases of other authors' (Tribe, p. 268). A revised one-volume edition of Emerton's version was then published 1881. Tribe, A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, 199 & 208.

Third Joyce edition, constituting upon its first publication in 1797 the first abridgement of Smith's Wealth of Nations, a conscious move by the editor Jeremiah Joyce to turn the bulky two or three volumes of the original into a more manageable textbook of economics. Octavo (174 x 102 mm). Contemporary marbled sides and vellum tips sometime rebacked with brown sheep, spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription to front pastedown of Edgar MacCulloch (likely the expert on Guernsey folklore, 1808-1896), above later stamp of Elizabeth College Library in Guernsey. Very minor rubbing, very light spotting and creasing to pages. A very good copy.

THIRD EDITION. 12mo. (7.8 x 4.7 inches). xii, 395pp. A very good, clean copy in the original publishers paper covered boards. Pages untrimmed. Chipping to the edges of the original printed paper label on spine. Previous owner has covered the spine and board edges with white paper, which is chipped and showing loss which allows the original printed label to be seen. Board edges a bit rubbed and bumped. An uncommon survivor in any condition but in the original publishers boards even more so.