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Folio (412 × 264 mm), pp. [2], 26. Contemporary mottled calf, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, edges sprinkled red. 3 numbered letterpress tables on 7 sheets, 1 unnumbered letterpress table headed “A General Bill of the Weddings . . . ” bound in after p. 6. Some ink underlining to p. 25. Extremities rubbed, small losses to spine ends and label, cords expertly repaired, front joint cracked but still firm, covers marked and scuffed, contents foxed, tear to lower edge of first two leaves of manuscript and excision (45 × 130 mm) from upper margin of title leaf not affecting text, overall a very good copy. ¶ Goldsmiths’ 8604; Higgs 156; Kress 5137. £1,750 [120893] 118 MYRDAL, Gunnar, assisted by Richard Sterner & Arnold Rose. An American Dilemma. The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944 First edition, first printing, an important study of race relations in America and possibly the best-known and most influential work of future Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal. Commissioned by the Carnegie Institute, the project drew on sociological, economic, anthropological and legal data, to enquire into the “American Dilemma” – the sharp contrast between high ideals and the failure to deliver basic human rights in the 80 years since the Civil War. Myrdal was also a signatory of UNESCO’s 1950 statement The Race Question . In 1974 Myrdal was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Friedrich Hayek. 2 volumes, octavo. Original yellow cloth, spines lettered in brown. With dust jackets in light and dark yellow respectively, as issued. A fine copy, in near-fine jackets, short split at head of each rear fold and light rubbing to spine panel of vol. II, a few nicks, but still remarkably fresh. £850 [96826]
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117 MORRIS, Corbyn. Observations on the Past Growth and Present State of the City of London. London: [no publisher,] 1751 Presentation copy inscribed by the author First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Captain Bernard ab Authore C.M.”, with a three-page manuscript transcription before the title, almost certainly in Morris’s hand, of “The Freeholder’s Ditty, To The Tune of Moggy Lauder”. A note at the end states that the printer of the ballad was “Jack Mahon, at the sign of the three Messengers in Little Britain August 1756”. A customs administrator and economist, Corbyn Morris (1710–1779) was appointed secretary of the customs and salt duty in Scotland by Henry Pelham in 1751. “In 1753 he prepared a bill for a general registry of the population of Great Britain, involving the collection of birth and death statistics. He explained the advantages of a census to the duke of Newcastle, under whose ‘immediate direction’ the bill was introduced to the House of Lords” ( ODNB ). The work had a print run of 1,000 copies as recorded in the accounts of publisher William Bowyer, who is likely to have played a part in its printing.
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