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Mill, John Stuart. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. London: John W. Parker, West Strand, 1844, 1844.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo (9" x 5.25"), later brown cloth over boards, black leather title label stamped in gold at spine. 164 pp., 4 pp. ads. Early ownership signatures and ink stamp on ffep, early signatures at head of title page. First edition. CONDITION: Very good.

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

MILL, John Stuart.. ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.. London John W. Parker West Strand, 1844.

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Description: FIRST EDITION 1844. 8vo, approximately 225 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, pages: viii, half-title, title page, Preface, Contents, [1]-164 plus 4 pages of adverts, original boards, rebacked to style in thick paper with printed paper label. Boards rubbed with uneven pale staining, slight wear to corners, shelf wear to lower edges, neat ink numbers to verso title page, stain to top of first free endpaper with small repair to top corner and a tiny hole, faint evidence of a removed label at bottom of first free endpaper, pale foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, first inner paper hinge neatly strengthened, hardly noticeable, tip of several corners have small turning crease, otherwise a very good copy. See: Catalogue of the Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature, Volume 2, page 635, No. 33591. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom

Mill, John Stuart. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. John W. Parker, London, 1844.

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Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, pp. vi, 164, four pages of advertising to rear, original grey boards grubby and marked, spine split but still there, corners and edges bumped, interior with owner's signature to fep, title page and page 1, some foxing to end papers, half title and last page of adverts, otherwise largely clean and crisp, some light handling creases, binding is opening at places which has allowed in a small measure of dust and there is also dust on the uncut fore edge and top. However, a decent copy of this important book.

Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland

MILL, John Stuart.. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.. London: John W. Parker, 1844, 1844.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition of a series of five theoretical essays on economic problems which Mill had composed around 1830, only one of which had been published. Gathering these earlier essays gave Mill the idea of preparing a major synoptic work that would expand and bring up to date the classic treatises of Smith and Ricardo, and it proved to be the genesis of his great treatise, Principles of Political Economy, published early in 1848. Einaudi 3899; Goldsmiths' 33591. MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon, p. 57. Octavo. Uncut in original boards, rebacked with blue cloth with blue morocco label. With 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. A few instances of minor pencilled marginal lines and underlining. Light rubbing and bumping at extremities, slight spotting to endpapers. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

MILL, John Stuart.. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.. London: John W. Parker, 1844, 1844.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition of Mill's series of theoretical essays on five economic questions: the laws of interchange between nations, the influence of consumption upon production, productivity and unproductiveness, profits and interest, and the definition of political economy. The essays were composed around 1830 – this is the first appearance of all but one. The essays drew on the model established by Ricardo and upheld by Mill's father: "that rational pursuit of wealth could be isolated as the mainspring of human behaviour, that the economy was an integrated self-correcting system, and that distribution of rewards was inexorably determined by the relative availability of the three prime factors of production (land, labour, and capital). Consistent with these views, Mill's early essays condemned all forms of monetary expansion not guaranteed by gold reserves; denied the possibility of deliberately 'creating' employment by either government expenditure or expansion of private consumption; and defended the principles of 'workhouse-test' and 'less-eligibility' as the indispensable safeguards of rational work incentives, promoted by the new poor law of 1834" (ODNB). Gathering these earlier essays gave Mill the idea of preparing a major synoptic work that would expand and bring up to date the classic treatises of Smith and Ricardo, and thereby proved to be the genesis of his great treatise, Principles of Political Economy, published in 1848. Provenance: John Sheepshanks (1787-1863), cloth manufacturer in Leeds and notable art collector, whose collection is now deposited in the V&A, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Einaudi 3899; Goldsmiths' 33591; MacMinn, Hainds, & McCrimmon, p. 57. Octavo (217 x 134 mm). Contemporary calf, twin green and red morocco labels to spine,gilt in compartments, double gilt rule to covers, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. Bound without terminal publisher's advertisements. Joints and extremities neatly restored, contents toned: a very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom