Author: SENIOR (William Nassau):
Title: Two Lectures on Population, delivered before the University of Oxford, in Easter Term, 1828. To which is added a Correspondence between the Author and the Rev. T.R. Malthus.
Description: London, Saunders and Otley, 1829. 8vo, pp (iv), 90, but lacking the sub-title after p.52 (which is blank except for the word "Appendix") and the final leaf which is blank except for imprint, some damp stains at the beginning, modern boards, paper label. The second printing (first was 1828) of his third book. Senior's lectures on population contain some of the first arguments against the Malthusian theory based on recent evidence of rising living standards despite the increase in population since the Essay on the Principle of Population first appeared in 1798. Kress C. 2359. Goldsmiths 25822. Levy, Nassau William Senior 1790-1864, p. 281.

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