first edition
1844 · Edinburgh
by DE QUINCEY, Thomas
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. Full Description:
DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The Logic of Political Economy. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844.
First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 140 mm). xii, 260. Illustrated with diagrams and tables.
Publisher's original full brown cloth. Boards paneled and stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Cloth is sunned to light tan in most places. Some minor splitting of cloth along back outer hinge. Head of the spine with some light chipping. Corners a bit bumped. Overall, a very good, clean and sound copy.
This is De Quincey's greatest economical work "intended to unravel intricacies and to expose sundry errors in application of the Ricardian theory of value" (McCulloch, p. 20). Through geometric constructions and diagrams De Quincey takes several important steps towards a modern value theory based on utility.
"...he showed great power in the economical investigations which Coleridge despised...J.S. Mill speaks of him with great respect, and adopts some of his illustrations of the theory of money" (DNB).
Goldsmiths' 33558. Kress C6279. See also Palgrave I, pp. 568-569.
HBS 69282.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69282)
DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The Logic of Political Economy. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844.
First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 140 mm). xii, 260. Illustrated with diagrams and tables.
Publisher's original full brown cloth. Boards paneled and stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Cloth is sunned to light tan in most places. Some minor splitting of cloth along back outer hinge. Head of the spine with some light chipping. Corners a bit bumped. Overall, a very good, clean and sound copy.
This is De Quincey's greatest economical work "intended to unravel intricacies and to expose sundry errors in application of the Ricardian theory of value" (McCulloch, p. 20). Through geometric constructions and diagrams De Quincey takes several important steps towards a modern value theory based on utility.
"...he showed great power in the economical investigations which Coleridge despised...J.S. Mill speaks of him with great respect, and adopts some of his illustrations of the theory of money" (DNB).
Goldsmiths' 33558. Kress C6279. See also Palgrave I, pp. 568-569.
HBS 69282.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69282)
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