The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P. With A Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author.

First edition, first issue. 8vo. xxxiii, [1], [3]-584, [16, publisher?s advertisements dated ?January, 1846?] pp. Original purple ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, boards panelled in blind, edges untrimmed (late nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of ?Sir G. Graham Montgomery, Bart of Stanhope? to front pastedown, ex-Wigan Public Library, with an accession inscription by their librarian Henry Tennyson Folkard ?Cat. Bought April 1908. H.J.F.? in black ink to the front free endpaper and their blind stamp to title page, p. 583-4 and terminal leaf of advertisements at rear, deaccession stamps to front free endpaper and verso of title, just a hint of spotting to preliminaries; cloth rather worn and unevenly faded, some discreet repair work to spine, still just about a very good copy overall). London, John Murray. Inscribed by the editor John Ramsay McCulloch to the Scottish judge and politician Thomas Mailtand, Lord Dundrennan (1792-1851) in black ink to the front free endpaper: 'Thomas Maitland Esq M.P. &c &c from his friend the Editor'. The first published collection of the works of David Ricardo, including Principles of Political Economy and Taxation as well as numerous essays, compiled and with a biographical sketch by the Scottish economist John Ramsay McCulloch, widely regarded as the figurehead of the Ricardian school of economics following Ricardo's death in 1823. McCulloch's memoir of Ricardo was originally published separately in 1825 under the title Memoir of the Life and Writings of David Ricardo.…