Defence Of Usury

'BOTH IN STYLE AND IN MATTER ONE OF THE MOST MASTERLY OF [HIS] ECONOMICAL WRITINGS' POWERFULLY INFLUENTIAL ARGUMENT FOR REFORM first Irish edition 12mo. [8 (half-title, title, contents)], 232pp., contemporary tan calf, smooth spine panelled by blind rolls, red morocco title label, small patch of silverfish damage (leather eaten away) on front board near head of… Read more about this item

London: T. Payne and Son, 1790 'To Which is Added a Letter to Adam Smith on the Discouragements Opposed By the Above Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry.' Second edition stated on title, possibly 19th century cloth, soiled and rubbed, gilt titled spine, upper joint partially split, paper residue to paste down, inscripiton to fep dated 1878, binder's ?… Read more about this item

London: Payne and Foss, 1818. Hardcover. Fourth Edition of the Defence of Usury [with] Third Edition of A Protest Against Law-Taxes. 18mo. [2] [iv.] 206pp.; 70pp. Bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards. VERY GOOD. Shows shelf rubbing and scuffing of the binding with some showing and marginal loss, former owner name stamp neatly on the paste-down, first… Read more about this item

London: Printed for T. Payne, and Son,, 1787. Jeremy Bentham on Adam Smith First edition of Bentham's first work on economics, critiquing Smith's Wealth of Nations. Smith is reported to have said that Bentham "has given me some hard knocks... but in so handsome a manner that I cannot complain" (quoted in Atkinson, p. 82). This first edition is… Read more about this item

Dodo Press, 2008-11-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: T. Payne. 1790. 2nd ed. 206 pages, in beautiful modern light brown calf, red label; Very old name on title page corner, some aging/browning of paper but overall a very nice, professionally rebound copy. .

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1842. Second edition, 16mo, pp. viii, [1], 6-124; original green blindstamped cloth, gilt title on spine; spine chipped level with text block; a few gatherings foxed; else very good. A later American printing of Bentham's first published work on economics and the law.

Philadelphia: Manly and Orr. Very good copy. 1841. Later prt.. hardcover. 12mo, 124 pp., Backstrip cracked along its edges but outer & inner hinges still tight, Full title reads as follows: "A Defence of Usury; Showing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints of the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains to Which is Added, a Letter to Adam Smith, Esq. ,… Read more about this item

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-06-17. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-10-20. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Originally published in 1787, this work by the utilitarian philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) champions 'the liberty of making one's own terms in money bargains' and argues against government control of the rate of interest. It includes a letter to Adam Smith in response to his Wealth of Nations (1776).

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-05-23. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-06-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2010-12-17. Paperback. Good.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-16. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-10-20. Paperback. Good.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-10-20. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.