Thomas Malthus 1806 An Essay On The Principle Of Population 3rd Ed Fine Leather

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An Essay
On The
Principle Of Population
Or,
A View Of Its Past And Present Effects On
Human Happiness
With An Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting The Future Removal Or Mitigation Of The Evils Which It Occasions

by
Rev T R Malthus
With a Biography of the Author, Full analysis and Critical Introduction by G T Bettany

Leather. 8vo. Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley, London, UK. 1806. Two Volumes, xvi, 505 pgs; vii, 559 pgs. Third Edition.

Bound in gilt ruled fine calf leather with titles present to the spine. Boards have light  shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly rubbed and worn). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Third edition, the first to be published in 2 volumes and the first published after the Great Quarto edition of 1803, of one of the most important and influential books in the history of economic thought. The third edition contained numerous revisions, among which was a text entitled, A Reply to the Chief Objections which have been urged against the Essay on the Principle of Population, which was also published separately so that it might be bound with earlier ones.

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological prospects.