The Principles of Population and Production, as they are affected by the Progress of Society; with a view to Moral and Political Consequences.

WEYLAND, John.

Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London., 1816

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First edition. Octavo. pp xl, 493, [i] adverts. Period quarter leather with marbled boards, recently rebacked and with endpapers renewed. The author's major work, a direct challenge to Malthusian warnings of the dangers of population growth. Indeed, Weyland argues that economic progress depends on the stimulus provided by such growth to a level ''just beyond the plentiful supply of the people's want''. Malthus was stung to an intemperate rebuttal in an appendix to the fifth edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population: "It is quite inconceivable how a man of sense could bewilder himself in such a maze of futile calculations, and come to conclusions so diametrically opposite to experience."Ownership signature on second blank. Some foxing to prelims. Faint traces of damp to inner margins of first gathering. Very good. The title-page raises some questions: it shares some of the foxing of the surrounding pages, but is printed on slightly thinner paper (an early facsimile insert?, a later facsimile insert on period paper?). Scarce: there was only one nineteenth century edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Principles of Population and Production, as they are affected by the Progress of Society; with a view to Moral and Political Consequences.
• Publisher: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London.
• Publication Date: 1816
• Binding: Hardcover