Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GODWIN, WILLIAM. Of Population. An Enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on that Subject. 22, 626 pages. 8vo, original boards with paper lettering piece, spine cracked, chipped at top, joints partly cracked and chipped, cover corners worn; ink stain in upper margin of opening leaves; uncut and almost entirely unopened; cloth folding case. Bookplates of Jonathan Hargreaves and John Yudkin. London: Longman et al., 1820

Additional Details

first edition of Godwin's rebuttal of the 1798 Essay on Population by Malthus.