Abstract of The Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, Passed in The Forty-first Year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled "An Act for Taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and The Increase or Diminution Thereof."

First edition of the first published census. Two volumes, folio (34 x 22cm). Vol. I, Enumeration, Part I. England and Wales, pp.[iv],502; Vol. II, pp. Parish-Registers, pp. [ii],459,[1],13. Early state of issue prior to the publication of Vol. I, Part II, Scotland, a 39pp. supplement issued in 1802, with a tipped-in slip announcing upcoming publication of that supplemental part. Untrimmed in contemporary half calf, mabled sides, worn at head of one spine, some loss of marbled paper, but quite sound. Vg. [Williams I, 209; McCulloch 262; BMC 21, 614].