9780521073752 - Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (Catlge Goldsmiths Libry) von Canney, M. B. C. (3 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Pages tanned as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved. Physical description: xxiii, 838 p.: port.; 30 cm. Subjects: University of London. Library Catalogs. Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature Catalogs. Economics; Bibliography. Genre: Bibliography. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 volumes 4to (30.5 cm), front., XXIV, 838 pp; VII, 772 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets, top edges painted green (minor shelf-wear, dj of the volume 1 clipped). Volume I, Printed Books to 1800 (1970), compiled by Margaret Canney and David Knott, includes a historical introduction by J. H. P. Pafford and a foreword by D. T. Richnell; Volume II, Printed Books 1801-1850 (1975), compiled by Margaret Canney, David Knott, and Joan M. Gibbs. The catalogue records one of the finest collections of early economic literature in existence, the Goldsmiths' Library, formed by Professor H. S. Foxwell (1849-1936), purchased in 1901 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths for £10,000, and presented in 1903 to the University of London, where it has since been housed. Comprising approximately 60,000 printed books and pamphlets, 400 manuscripts, and 350 autograph letters, the collection spans European and American economic thought, with particular strength in political science, social history, slavery, transport, temperance, trade unionism, and early socialist writing. The catalogue is arranged chronologically with broad subject divisions and includes notes on copies with notable provenance, among them books from the libraries of Adam Smith, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, David Hume, Karl Marx, and William Wordsworth. An indispensable reference for historians of economic thought, intellectual history, and the early book trade.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 4 volumes 4to (28.5 cm), XI, 414 pp; X, 397 pp; VIII, 397 pp; VIII, 453 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (minor shelf-wear, vol. 2 slightly discolored and rubbed at extremities). The Kress Collection of Business and Economics was assembled through the diligent efforts of the British economist Herbert Somerton Foxwell and came into the possession of HBS in the 1930s, thanks to the generous donation by Claude Washington Kress. The collection comprises rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and prints, spanning from the earliest imprint in 1474 to a closing date of 1850. Volume 1 of the catalogue (published by Augustus M. Kelley in 1977) covers material published through 1776 and includes data on related items in other Harvard libraries. Volume 2 (Baker Library, 1957) encompasses books printed from 1777 to 1817. Volume 3 (Baker Library, 1964) catalogues books published from 1818 to 1848. Volume 4 (Baker Library, 1967) serves as a catalogue supplement, covering the period from 1473 to 1848.