[Rarebooks] fa: LETTERS TO MR. MALTHUS - Jean-Baptiste Say + REMARKS ON THE PRODUCTION OF WEALTH + JEREMY BENTHAM etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Jean Baptiste Say: Letters to Mr. Malthus, on Various Subjects of Political Economy; Particularly on the Causes of the General Stagnation of Commerce. Translated for the Pamphleteer exclusively. 1820. First edition in English. Goldsmiths'-Kress 23136. [BOUND WITH:] [Simon] Gray:] Remarks on the Production of Wealth, and the Influence, which the Various Classes of Society Have, in Carrying on that Process: In a Letter to the Rev. T. R. Malthus, Occasioned by his Attempt to Maintain the Division of Classes into Productive and Unproductive. "Original." 1820. First edition. Goldsmiths'-Kress 22753. [BOUND WITH:] Jeremy Bentham: Leading Principles of a Constitutional Code, for Any State. "Original." 1823. First edition. [BOUND WITH 17 OTHERS]. Vols. XVII and XXII of The Pamphleteer. London: Printed by A.J. Valpy, sold by Sherwood and Co. [et al], 1820, 1823. Two volumes bound in one; 8vo; period half calf and marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine and morocco spine label; [2], ii, [292]-579; [1], iv, [299]-570 p. (ca. 560 pp. total).

A handsomely bound collection of twenty separate pamphlets, many of which are first editions and deal with political economics and government. Modest rubbing and wear to the boards, leather splitting along the joints at foot of the spine; first vol. without general title-page, occasional light browning and a few small spots to the leaves, but generally very clean and crisp, firmly bound. In addition to the three mentioned above, the other titles include:

- "Vindex": Observations on the Present National Distress; Addressed to the Right Honorable Lord —. "Original." 1820. First edition. Goldsmiths'-Kress 23771.1.
- Essay on Currency; or The Alterations in the Value of Money, the Great Cause of the Distressed State of the Country. With a Comparison between the State of the Currency in the Reign of William III and the Present Debased or Depreciated State. "Original." 1820. First edition. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22910.
- John Clay: A Free Trade Essential to the Welfare of Great Britain, or An Inquiry into the Cause of the Present Distressed State of the Country, and the Consequent Increase of Pauperism, Misery, and Crime. To which is added, Some Observations on Two Letters to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, M.P. by One of His Constituents. The First, on the Pernicious Effects of a Variable Standard of Value; the Second, on the Causes of the Increase of Pauperism, &c. 1820.
- The United Kingdom Tributary to France; The Real Cause of the Distresses of the Country: Demonstrated in a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, First Lord of the Treasury. 1820.
- [Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne:] The Speech of the Marquis of Lansdown, on Foreign Commerce: Spoken in the House of Lords. (Now first revised and corrected for the Pamphleteer). 1820. First edition thus.
-  Considerations on the Corn Question, &c. "Original." 1821. First edition.
-  J.C. Hudson: A Letter to the Mistresses of Families, on the Cruelty of Employing Children in the Odious, Dangerous, and Often Fatal Task of Sweeping Chimnies; and on the Facility with which the Practice may be almost Wholly Abolished. 1823. With woodcuts.
-  Lewis Goldsmith: Observations on the Appointment of the Right Hon. Geo. Canning to the Foreign Department; and on the State of Society in England, and on European Politics… 1823.
-  Analysis of the British House of Commons, as at Present Constituted; in which are Exhibited the Nature and Extent of the Suffrage, Patronage and Population, in Every County, City, and Borough. With the Votes of Every Member… To which is appended, An Analysis and Summary of the Total Population. 1823.
-  George Webb Derenzy: Enchiridion: or A Hand for the One-Handed. 1823. With numerous woodcuts.
-  [J. Lowe:]: On the Recognition of Columbia by Great Britain. 1823.
-  Rev. William B. Whitehead: Prosecutions of Infidel Blasphemers Briefly Vindicated in a Letter to David Ricardo, Esq. M.P. Second edition, with corrections. 1823.
-  Unchristian Perfidies of the Most Christian Cabinet of France towards Free Spain; Being an Appeal to the Public Opinion of Europe. By a British Traveller in the Peninsula. 1823.
-  Edward Blaquiere: Report on the Present State of the Greek Confederation, and on its Claims to the Support of the Christian World. 1823.