An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; Association copy with founder of the New Haven Law School. Two Volumes.
Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for G. Burnet, L. White, W. Wilson, P. Byrne, et al. 1793. Fifth edition with additions. Hardcover. Signed by the original owner Seth. P. Staples in 1797 & 1799. Seth Perkins Staples (Aug. 31, 1776- Nov. 6, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician who founded the New Haven Law School, which was absorbed by Yale University as their Yale Law School. Smith's masterpiece, considered the first modern work of economics and the most significant economics book ever published; the first Dublin edition was published in 1776, the same year as the first London edition.
Staples graduated from Yale in 1797. He was admitted to the bar in Sept. 1799 and began to practice law in New Haven. "His legal attainments and his excellent library early drew around him a large number of students, and he soon found himself at the head of a flourishing private Law School. After toiling alone for several years, in 1820 he called to his aid Judge Samuel J. Hitchcock, and made him a partner both in his business and in his Law School. During this time he is known to have helped out future United States Attorney Asa Child.[1] In 1846 the School thus originated, having meanwhile passed into other hands, was formally recognized by the Corporation of Yale College, as the Law Department of that Institution." (Wikipedia)
2 vols, 8vo, xiii, 498 pp & [8], 489pp 55pp Appendix, 53pp Index. Also signed by a subsequent owner who attended Yale in 1892. Complete, with both half-titles present. Very clean text block with only the ffep & half title slt. foxed. Nicely rebound in quarter brown calf and marbled boards.
ESTC T95114; OCLC: 2399436; Tribe 50. A very nice association copy. Item #26738
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