An Analysis of Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. [SMITH (Adam).], JOYCE (Jeremiah). & EMERTON (Wolseley P.)

Reprinted, with Additions, from the Third Edition of Jeremiah Joyce's Abridgement. Revised and Edited by Wolsely P. Emerton. Part I. Books I. and II.; Part II. Books III, IV, and V. First Emerton edition. Two volumes. Small 8vo. xvi, 159, [1], 12 [publisher's advertisements dated 'June 1882']; x, 209, [3], [publisher's advertisements dated 'May 1880'] pp. Original red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, covers with blind fillet borders, printed endpapers to Vol. 1 (neat contemporary ownership inscriptions of 'H.R. Stokoe' to front flyleaves of both volumes; only light shelf wear to extremities, otherwise an excellent set). Oxford, James Thornton. The first Wolseley P. Emerton edition of what started life as the first ever précis of the Wealth of Nations, edited by Jeremiah Joyce and originally published in 1797. Joyce's abridgement was brought up-to-date for students of the University of Oxford by Emerton, who 'completely recast' Joyce's version 'with whole passages substituted, sometimes drafted by Emerton and sometimes taken from paraphrases of other authors' (Tribe, p. 268). A revised one-volume edition of Emerton's version was then published 1881. Tribe, A Critical Bibliography of Adam Smith, 199 & 208.