Lot 507
Smith, Adam
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
£2,625
Description
The theory of moral sentiments. London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell; Edinburgh, W. Creech & J. Bell, 1790. 2 volumes, sixth edition, 8vo, with half-titles, contemporary light tan, sprinkled calf, red morocco lettering and numbering pieces, some offsetting to the endpapers
Footnote
Note: Goldsmiths' Library 14580; Kress B.1988. The Sixth and final lifetime edition, substantially revised and enlarged by the author. It presents significant changes from the 1759 edition