MALTHUS, T.R. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness. London: J. Johnson, 1806. 2 vols., third edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) Half-titles, index to rear of volume 1, 'Appendix' to rear of volume 2. (Occasional light spotting and browning, marginal insect damage to rear five leaves of volume 1, and to corner of half-title of volume 2, initial blanks loose.) Contemporary speckled calf (lacking lettering pieces, upper covers detached). Provenance: G.W. Andrews (gift inscribed from on the title-page); James Henry Crawford (bookplates to the front pastedowns and gift inscribed to on the title-pages). - And a further twenty-nine volumes relating to industry, economics, social welfare, topography and agriculture (including two works by William Marshall: 'The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties', 2 vols., 1790, 8vo, and 'The Rural Economy of the West of England', 2 vols., 1796, 8vo) (31).