Adam Smith Rare The Bookshop

2 volumes; 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm, 7 x 4.75 in); armorial bookplates to front fly-leaf of both vols., light spotting to prelims; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands, contrasting green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, extremities lightly rubbed, areas of minor wear to covers, internally sound; xxxix, [1], 502, [2]; [2], vi, 552, [2]pp. An excellent copy.

first edition., 4to, x, 532 pp., 3 engraved portraits, some offset staining to portraits and facing leaf, contemporary russia, covers ruled in gilt and blind, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, others with large gilt block, raised bands with double gilt fillets, marbled edges, a very good copy.