Elements of Economics of Industry being the first Volume of Elements of Economics.
MARSHALL Alfred (1892.)
£300.00 [First Edition]
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First edition. Small 8vo. xiv, 416, 54 [publisher's advertisements dated 'Sept. 1891'], [2] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind (slight lean to spine, some light wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy). London, Macmillan and Co.
An abridgement, intended for students, of Marshall’s Principles of Economics, with a chapter on trade unions added at the end of book six. 'The necessary abridgement has been effected not by systematic compression so much as by the omission of many discussions on points of minor importance and of some difficult theoretical investigations' (Preface).
With the engraved bookplate and pencilled ownership inscription of the American jurist and diplomat Theodore Marburg.
Stock Code: 245170