the cornerstone of neo-liberalism
HAYEK, Friedrich August von.
The Constitution of Liberty.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960.
Where The Road to Serfdom contained a sustained attacked on the malign forces of totalitarianism and the enchroaching-state, The Constitution of Liberty, published to coincide with the centenary of J.S. Mill's On Liberty, offered a positive vision of what a low-interventionist government may look like: 'to picture an ideal, to show how it can be achieved, and to explain what its realization would mean in practice' (Preface).
The resultant work contains a discussion of ethics, jurisprudence, the history of ideas and economics of the modern welfare state, analysing the ethical foundations of what a 'free' society might look like where individual liberty is the prized-basis of morality.
First edition, first impression; 8vo (24 x 16 cm); slight offsetting to front free endpapers, light spotting to fore-edge and endpapers; publisher's ochre cloth, lettered in gold on blue ground to spine, upper cover slightly soiled, publisher's unclipped salmon-pink dustjacket lettered in blue, a little spotted, very good; x, 569, [1]pp.
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The Constitution of Liberty.
XENOPHON; FIELDING, Sarah (translator).
Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates.
1762.
A handsomely bound first edition of Sarah Fielding's translation of Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates.
£1,250.00
WOTTON, William; BENTLEY, Richard.
Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning...
1697.
The second edition, much expanded of William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, bound with Richard Bentley's Dissertation for the first time
£750.00
TYRTAEUS; MOOR, James (editor).
Spartan Lessons;
1759.
The first Foulis Press edition of Tyrtaeus' panegyric on martial spirit, Spartan Lessons, edited by the classicist James Moor
£1,500.00
CICERO; [DAVID, Henry (translator)].
Thoughts of Cicero,
1750.
The first trilingual edition in English, French, and Latin of this collection of Cicero's thoughts on religion, law and philosophy
£450.00
