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two years for selling the book, despite his claim in his trial as to being ignorant of its contents. Octavo (209 × 122 mm). Recent brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature “D Constable” to half-title. Lightly toned and foxed, peripheral fraying to a couple of leaves. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC T48835. Mark Philp, Reforming Ideas in Britain , CUP, 2014. £650 [139092] 80 JARROLD, Thomas. Dissertations on Man, philosophical, physiological, and political; in answer to Mr. Malthus’s “Essay on the Principle of Population.” London: Cadell & Davis, and Burditt, 1806 The first full-length response to Malthus First and only edition of this rare essay on population conceived as a point-by-point refutation of Malthus, the first full-length response to Malthus’s Essay . Jarrold (1763–1809), a well-known physician, discusses in a series of chapters the checks to population adopted in various European and non-European societies, including North America. This is the earliest criticism of Malthus to achieve the scale of a full-length work: the more famous reply of Hazlitt did not appear until 1807, and Charles Hall’s provocative work, The Effects of Civilisation of the people of European States with Observations on . . . Mr. Malthus’ Essay , published in 1805, in fact contains only a 25-page supplement on Malthus. The first ever monograph devoted entirely to criticism of the Essay ( Remarks on a late publication, entitled, ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population . . . ’, 1803 ) was only 62 pages long. Octavo (211 × 120 mm). Contemporary polished calf, spine decorated and lettered gilt in compartments, gilt and blind-stamp roll borders and lozenge device centrally blindstamped to covers, brown endpapers, marbled edges. Bound without half-title. Some surface abrasion to rear cover, joints, and spine, with loss of gilt and lettering, corners rubbed, intermittent spotting to contents, more severe in places; a good copy. ¶ Einaudi 3047; Goldsmiths’ 19209; Kress B.5061. £1,750 [126567]
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78 HOWLETT, John. An Examination of Dr. Price’s Essay on the Population of England and Wales. Maidstone: Printed for the author by J. Blake: and sold by T. Payne and Son, 1781 First edition. The statistician and economist John Howlett (1731–1804) published the present work in response to the demographer Richard Price’s essay of 1780, which claimed that the population of England and Wales was in decline. Howlett instead argued, correctly, that the population was in fact increasing, and at a quickening pace. Howlett would go on to be a fierce defender of the economic benefits of enclosures, castigating its opponents as motivated by irrational sentiments. Octavo (209 × 129 mm). Blue wrappers to style using early paper, red speckled edges. Contemporary ownership signature to title page. Residue of former label to front cover, a few instances of mild foxing or creasing, else a very good copy. ¶ ESTC T2248; Goldsmiths’ 12139. £650 [125327] 79 ILIFF, Edward Henry. A Summary of the Duties of Citizenship! Written Expressly for the Members of the London Corresponding Society. London: R. Lee, D. I. Eaton, G. Riebau, J. Smith, and J. Burks, [1795] First edition of this radical tract, by the actor, playwright, and novelist Edward Henry Iliff, a friend of William Godwin. Iliff writes that “the genus of society contains two species of odious monsters; Tyrants and Slaves” (p. 5), the former including soldiers, priests, and lawyers, the latter the poor multitudes. The pamphlet led to the prosecution of its publishers and sellers – Daniel Eaton was tried in absentia for publishing this pamphlet and a similar work, and was forced into hiding and then into exile in Philadelphia; John Smith was imprisoned for
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