MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.

An Essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an enquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. A new edition, very much enlarged.

London, J. Johnson, 1803. 4to, pp. viii, [3] contents, [1] errata, 610; a little light foxing; early repair to blank margin of final leaf of text; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, joints sympathetically repaired, vellum corners. Second edition. ‘The book was at first published anonymously, but Malthus attached his name to the greatly altered edition of 1803’ (Garrison-Morton 1693).DNB defines this second edition as ‘a substantially new book, containing the results of his careful inquiries on the continent and his wide reading of the appropriate literature’.Carpenter XXXII (2); Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths’ 18640; Kress B.4701; Mattioli 2207.

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