STEUART, Sir James Denham.
The works, political, metaphisical, and chronological... now first collected by General Sir James Steuart, Bart. his son, from his father’s corrected copies. To which are subjoined anecdotes of the author. In six volumes. Vol. I [- VI.]
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805.
Six volumes, 8vo., pp. xx, [4], 444, [4]; [iii]-xx, 441; [iii]-xx, 467, [1]; viii, 416; [iii]-vii, [1], 415, [1]; [iii]-viii, 391, [1] + a large folding table; occasional light spotting, more severe in places, generally a very good clean set, bound without four initial blanks or half-titles and a final advertisement leaf, in contemporary sprinkled calf and marbled boards, flat spines decorated and numbered gilt in compartments, joints cracked but firm, some wear to spine ends, and with the gilt lettering-pieces lacking; from the Stobhall library, with the armorial Strathallan bookplate in each volume.
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The works, political, metaphisical, and chronological... now first collected by General Sir James Steuart, Bart. his son, from his father’s corrected copies. To which are subjoined anecdotes of the author. In six volumes. Vol. I [- VI.]
First and only edition of Steuart’s collected works, volumes I to IV containing the Inquiry into the principles of political Oeconomy, volume V containing Steuart’s various writings on money and coinage, volume VI his philosophical writings, together with anecdotes of his life.
Einaudi 1526; Goldsmiths’ 19010; Kress B.4987; not in Mattioli.
