The Coal Question; An Inquiry concerning the progress of the nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines.

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First edition of the book which made Jevons's reputation, an influential study of coal within the economy of the British Empire. Jevons warns of an impending explosion in the price of coal, as the expanding population would force a catastrophic extension of mining to poorer or deeper seams. The following year, John Stuart Mill cited Jevons's theories in the House of Commons. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, cited them in that year's budget speech and summoned Jevons to Downing Street to discuss matters further. Not in Einaudi, Mattioli, or Sraffa. Octavo. Diagrammatic frontispiece, tables in the text. Original pebble-grain brown cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, covers panelled in blind, dark green coated endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. Late 20th-century pencil ownership signature of Stanley C. Wisniewski, an American copyright judge, to recto of frontispiece. Light bumping and rubbing, minor cockling to spine, minor browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 174425

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