SMITH, ADAM. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1776. 2 vols., 4to, 277 x 217mm. (10 7/8 x 8 9/16in.), contemporary calf, corners badly worn, rebacked, occasional foxing throughout, vol. 1 with leaf L4 torn, lacking final blank leaf 3T4 and with slight marginal worming at end, vol. 2 with slight tear at gutter margin of half-title. FIRST EDITION, half-title only in vol. 2 as issued, with the usual cancels (M3, U3, Az3, 3Ar and 304 in vol. 1 and D1 in vol. 2), publisher's advertisement on 2: 4F2v. Grolier English 47; Kress 7621; Rothschild 1897; Sabin 82303; PMM 221. Provenance : J. Ivans(?), nineteenth-century signatures on titles -- early twentieth-century German annotations in ink and underlinings in red pencil at the beginning of vol. 2, chap. 2, heavy on pp. 36 and 37. (2)
SMITH, ADAM. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1776. 2 vols., 4to, 277 x 217mm. (10 7/8 x 8 9/16in.), contemporary calf, corners badly worn, rebacked, occasional foxing throughout, vol. 1 with leaf L4 torn, lacking final blank leaf 3T4 and with slight marginal worming at end, vol. 2 with slight tear at gutter margin of half-title. FIRST EDITION, half-title only in vol. 2 as issued, with the usual cancels (M3, U3, Az3, 3Ar and 304 in vol. 1 and D1 in vol. 2), publisher's advertisement on 2: 4F2v. Grolier English 47; Kress 7621; Rothschild 1897; Sabin 82303; PMM 221. Provenance : J. Ivans(?), nineteenth-century signatures on titles -- early twentieth-century German annotations in ink and underlinings in red pencil at the beginning of vol. 2, chap. 2, heavy on pp. 36 and 37. (2)
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