Complete in two volumes. Nineth, variorum edition. xxxiv, 858pp; x, 886pp. Both volumes uniformly bound in red cloth with gilt titles on green relief on spine. 8vos. Cloth gently rounded at spine ends. Both volumes have some spotting on text block edges and, faintly, on the first and last few leaves else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In their original paper dust wrappers, lightly spotted, rubbed and bumped at edges, heavily so at the top of the spine of volume two, shelf worn.
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was one of the most influential economists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and his Principles of Economics (1890) was the standard reference on economics for many years, bringing the concepts of supply and demand, marginal utility and costs of production into a coherent whole and popularising a neoclassical approach to microeconomics - an approach which still dominates. Marshall is known as the 'father of scientific economics'. This is a variorum edition of his masterwork, including complications of variant readings, source references and commentaries.
