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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Seventh Printing. Signed by Marvin Radnor on title page. Brilliant copy in yellow illustrated boards with shelf wear on lower tips. Orange cloth spine. Matching unclipped dj in new mylar shows chip at foot of frt panel taking some of the text describing illustrator, two old cello tape marks at backstrip and on head of rear panel, closed tear on rear panel but displays well nonetheless. Illust endpapers 28 pp including index. Text mint, no tears, soil or names. Words and music score for 26 favorite songs. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 8vo. xiv, 331, [1], 32 [publisher's advertisements] pp., frontispiece, with tissue guard, of engraved bust of Turgot after the medal struck in joint honour of Turgot and Adam Smith by the Societe d'Econormie Politique in 1876. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges untrimmed, black coated endpapers (bookplate to front pastedown, ex-library stamp to title page, some very light wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy). London, Longmans & Co. The first half of this work comprises Walker's intellectual biography of Turgot, including a detailed account of his highly productive, yet controversial, tenure Minister of Finance, Trade and Public Works under Louis XVI. The rest of the book is made up of English translations of various extracts from Turgot's work, including parts of the Éloge de Gournay, the letter to the Abbe de Cice on Law's paper money, and some letters to Adam Smith, Josiah Tucker, and Richard Price.