MILL, John Stuart. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. Third edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1877.

MILL, John Stuart. Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. Third edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1877.

vi, [ii], 164 pp. plus advertisement leaf; some spotting to endpapers and light foxing to title-page. Contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine, lacking label, a little rubbed at extremities.

First published in 1844. A series of five essays dealing with problems such as international commerce and the laws governing it; the relationship between consumption and production; the definition of productive and unproductive; profits and interest; the meaning of the term political economy with an analysis of the aims and methods proper to the science of political economy. See MacMinn, Hainds, and McCrimmon, p.57.