The Edinburgh Review, for the Year 1755. The second edition, with a preface and explanatory notes.

SMITH, Adam (contrib.).

Published by London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1818

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Second edition, a facsimile reprint of both issues of the Review, incorporating the earliest published work by Adam Smith. The Edinburgh Review only ran for this single year from 1755 to 1756, yet its contributors included Adam Smith and William Robertson, and it had the fortune to coincide with Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and Johnson's Dictionary. Both works are covered here by Smith. The journal aimed to review every publication originating in Scotland, but this belied a deeper manifesto of social, economic, and cultural reform. In the preface, Alexander Wedderburn (1733-1805), later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, wrote that the review aimed towards "the progressive state of learning in the country" (ODNB). This second edition was supervised by Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), a jurist, politician, and a leading figure in early 19th-century Whiggish history. Mackintosh provides a 12-page preface and explanatory notes in which he puts names to the originally anonymous articles. Provenance: Professor Arnold Heertje (1934-2020), with his engraved bookplate fixed to the front pastedown. Goldsmiths' 22015; Vanderblue, p. 46. Octavo (208 x 133 mm), pp. [ii]-xvi, [2], vi, 135, [1]; lacking half-title. Contemporary half calf, rebacked and re-cornered, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, contemporary marbled paper sides, edges sprinkled red. Bookseller's ticket of J. Seacome, Chester, to front pastedown. Infrequent light foxing: a very good copy indeed.

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Title: The Edinburgh Review, for the Year 1755. The second edition, with a preface and explanatory notes.
Publisher: London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1818

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