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Fine Facsimile Reprint. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 493 pages; Physical desc. : [5], xl, 494p. ; 22cm. Reprint of the 1816 edition. Series: The Development of industrial society series. Subjects: Population. Malthusianism 3 Kg.

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Reprint of 1816 edition. 8vo. xl + 493pp. Very good in original gilt lettered brown boards with red and black title patches to spine. Reprints of Economic Classics series. US$15.

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. XL,493 [errata on p.493],[1]p. Contemp. tree calf gilt back, marbled endpapers. Light foxing to first and last blanks only. A fine copy indeed. First edition. A major criticism of Malthus' population theory, answered by Malthus the next year in the appendix to the fifth edition of his Essay on population'. Malthus thought much higher of it than of the other object of the appendix, the Inquiry' of James Grahame which appeared the same year, 'a slight work without any very distinct object in view . Mr. Weyland's work is of a much more elaborate desciption [and] has also a very definite object in view'. Weyland believed that an increase of population was recommendable and argued that a higher birthrate in the countryside was needed to compensate for the higher mortality rate in towns. He holds that 'population has a natural tendency to keep within the powers of the soil to afford it subsistence in every gradation through which society passes [and] this tendency can never be destroyed, and can only be altered or diverted from its natural course . by grossly impolitic laws, or pernicious customs, either accelerating the progress of population considerably beyond its natural rate, or depressing the productive energies of the soil considerably below its natural powers' (p.21). Weyland was a landowner and magistrate from Oxfordshire and author of several books on the poor laws and related subjects. *Kress B.6837. Goldsmiths' 21429. Einaudi 6027. Bonar p.378-380.

First edition. Octavo. pp xl, 493, [i] adverts. Period quarter leather with marbled boards, recently rebacked and with endpapers renewed. The author's major work, a direct challenge to Malthusian warnings of the dangers of population growth. Indeed, Weyland argues that economic progress depends on the stimulus provided by such growth to a level ''just beyond the plentiful supply of the people's want''. Malthus was stung to an intemperate rebuttal in an appendix to the fifth edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population: "It is quite inconceivable how a man of sense could bewilder himself in such a maze of futile calculations, and come to conclusions so diametrically opposite to experience."Ownership signature on second blank. Some foxing to prelims. Faint traces of damp to inner margins of first gathering. Very good. The title-page raises some questions: it shares some of the foxing of the surrounding pages, but is printed on slightly thinner paper (an early facsimile insert?, a later facsimile insert on period paper?). Scarce: there was only one nineteenth century edition.

First edition of an important criticism of Malthus's Principles of Population, which Malthus responded to in the appendix to his fifth edition of the Principles the following year. Though Malthus rejected Weyland's conclusions in his response, he respected his adversary, thinking much higher of the work than the other object of the appendix, James Grahame's Inquiry into the Principle of Population: "a slight work without any very distinct object in view. Mr. Weyland's work is of a much more elaborate description [and] has also a very definite object in view" (Malthus, Principles, 1817, pp. 388, 397-8). John Weyland (1774-1854), a magistrate and a writer on the poor laws, praised Malthus for having raised the subject of population from the level of academic discussion to that of scientific inquiry. However, his conclusion on the subject of population was the exact opposite, advocating an increase in population. Weyland argued that a society in which one-third of the population lived in towns had "arrived at its point of non-reproduction" (Weyland, Principles, p. 109). With infant mortality higher in towns, the state should "keep an additional set of healthy breeders for the community; and that all unnecessary expense may be spared, it must place them in situations most favourable to child-bearing, and to the health of children, and most favourable also to their morals, that is to say, in the country villages" (ibid, p. 172). Weyland consequently encouraged the expansion of parish relief in the countryside to encourage reproduction, a proposal which horrified Malthus, who pictured, if Weyland's proposals were adopted, an endpoint of the whole of the working classes on poor relief: "what a dreadful picture does it present! what a scene of equality, indolence, rags and dependence, among one-half or three fourths of the society" (Malthus, Principles, 1817, p. 417). Despite Malthus's horror, "Weyland's principal object was to show that the poor laws were both beneficent and necessary, and were not a cause of pauperism, which he attributed to a lack of moral and religious instruction among the poor. Although his assertion that the population had reached a state of 'non-reproduction' was demonstrably absurd (despite the lack of issue from his own marriage), his advocacy of poor relief for large families where the wage-earner could not provide for all his children interested promoters of family allowances a century later" (ODNB). Einaudi 6027; Goldsmiths' 21429; Kress B.6837; Malthus MH.2.24; see Bonar, Malthus and his work, pp. 376-380 and James, Population Malthus, pp. 372-374. Octavo (205 x 124 mm). Recent quarter sheep, twin black and purple labels, marbled sides. With half-title. Binding fine save for light sunning to spine, contents generally clean save for light foxing at extremities and light stain to pp. 84-5 and 94-5, pp. 454-8 bound upside down; a very good copy.