**RARE** An Essay on the Principle of Population...Malthus, Thomas R.1817

About this Item xvi, 496 p; iv, 507 p; 500 p. "The fifth edition with important additions." Complete in three volumes. Original boards with repaired spines with original spine labels,Very Good condition overall: boards and text in very nice shape. Clean pages-- no marks other than what is displayed in the photos-- generally bright for age. Some foxing throughout text and typical waviness. Bumped corners. Not ex-library! Old London bookseller's stamp on front paste downs. Secodn volume front cover creased, missing small strip o paper. Original covers are intact; Nice condition overall. A greatly revised and expanded edition of Malthus' most famous work, the second-to-last published during his lifetime. Contains revisions of his views on rent, a deeper look at how the political organization of states was determined by population and what limits to population growth were already occurring in Europe, and an appendix with replies to critics. An enormously influential (and controversial) work that inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. A fine set. The fifth edition of this political and economic classic, which constitutes Malthus' first major publication and his main work, because of which he is considered the father of demography and one of the main sources of inspiration for Darwin and Wallace. An Essay on the Principle of Population or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness (Three Volumes) Publisher John Murray, London 1817