THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL. [ADAM SMITH, ECONOMICS, WEALTH OF NATIONS] First Edition. Complete in 20 volumes. by Edinburgh Review
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL. [ADAM SMITH, ECONOMICS, WEALTH OF NATIONS] First Edition. Complete in 20 volumes.
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Printed between 1803 and 1812.This set is well over 200 years old!
Complete in 20 volumes.Volume 20 is the index.First Edition in book form, as the set was previously issued in newspaper like format.
An important set. Exceedingly rare and unobtainable.
The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal was one of the most prominent and widely-circulating of the great British political and literary reviews of the 19th C. From its beginning in 1802 until at least the 1840s. It played an instrumental role in the development of the classical school of economics and its wide circulation helped spread classical liberalism in Britain.
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal.
FIRST EDITION. Bound in the original leather bindings.Marbled cover. Gilded spine. 8.25 inches tall. Complete 20 volume set. Volume 20 is the index. D Willison, Edinburgh. Printed in 1803 - 1812.
CONDITION: In exceptional condition for being 200 years old. Still bound in the original bindings. General rubbing to hinges and exterior. Some hinges starting, but all are strongly attached, and all covers held firm by the binding cords. Printed on extremely high quality paper, interiors show only minor foxing. Printed on quality paper. Early armorial bookplate. A gorgeous set.
A rare and seldom seen FIRST EDITION of this important journal. A predecessor of the modern periodical.
Includes Index in Vol. XX. This is the First Edition in book form, originally issued in periodicals in newspaper like format similar to the Spectator. This is the First Edition in book form. Comprises the Edinburgh Review from Oct. 1802 to Feb. 1812.
The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century.
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal was one of the most prominent and widely-circulating of the great British political and literary reviews of the 19th C. From its beginning in 1802 until at least the 1840s, The Edinburgh Review maintained a strong laissez-faire and reformist bent, thrusting the journalistic knee to the back of the Whig spine. It played an instrumental role in the development of the classical school of economics and its wide circulation helped spread classical liberalism in Britain.
The Edinburgh Review was founded in 1802, jointly by Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey, Francis Horner and Henry Brougham. All were quite young at the time - Smith was 31, Jeffrey 29, Horner 24 and Brougham 23. Most had been students of Dugald Stewart.at the University of Edinburgh and members of the "Speculative Society", a discussion club of Edinburgh students formed back in 1764. Jeffrey had attended the University of Glasgow, but was active in the Edinburgh society. Sydney Smith, the only Englishman among the group, had come to Edinburgh to study under Stewart. All had been trained as lawyers, all were largely classical liberals, adherents to the principles of laissez-faire and political Whigs (if not quite perfectly clear immediately)
The Edinburgh Review can be regarded as the last testament of the (waning) Scottish Enlightenment, its bequest unto the new century, and transmitter of that spirit beyond Scotland to the country as a whole . The founders consciously named their journal after another Edinburgh Review - Adam Smith's pugnacious journal of 1755, which had lasted only a few numbers. Thenew ER'spolitical bias was unapologetic - its buff and blue cover was instantly recognizable as the colors of the Whig party (colors supposedly originally chosen by Whig leader Charles James Fox in honor of George Washington's uniforms). They saw themselves as fulfilling the vision of their venerable teacher Dugald Stewart, giving birth to a new liberal political order, reviving and deploying the Whig Party (in abeyance for the last forty years) as the vehicle for political, economic and social change. As Sydney Smith later recollected:
When it came out in 1802, the Edinburgh Review was largely unprecedented as a publication. Sitting somewhere between a scientific journal and a chatty magazine, its articles consisted of essay-length reviews of recently-published books on politics, literature, philosophy and science. It sought to bring the latest progress on the intellectual frontier to the educated middle classes of Britain, broadly speaking. It was read not only by scholars and artists, but also by politicians, civil servants, lawyers, doctors, etc. It sought not merely to inform, but transform, public opinion. Its reviews were usually overtly biased and polemical, sometimes savage outright, but that edge only increased its appeal to readers. The ER adopted as its motto "Judex damnatus cum nocens absolvitur" ("condemned is the judge who absolves the guilty"). (Sydney Smith had originally proposed a line from Virgil "Tenui musam meditamur avena" - "We cultivate the muse upon a little oatmeal").
The Edinburgh Review was published quarterly by T.N. Longman of Edinburgh. Issue numbers came out Oct, Jan, Apr, July until 1810, thereafter Nov, Feb, May, Aug. It was originally designed for contributions "by gentlemen", without remuneration, although arrangements were eventually made to pay each reviewer £10 and the editor £200 per year. The reviews were all anonymous. Although authorship was sometimes easy to deduce from hints elsewhere (e.g. in correspondence, or by later reprints in collected works), many of the articles remain unattributed, or only speculatively attributed, to this day.
The first issue of the Edinburgh Review came out in October 1802, under the editorship of Sydney Smith. Francis Jeffrey took over the editing role in 1803, and would remain at the helm until 1829, when Jeffrey was elected as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates by the Scottish Bar and felt continuing would be a conflict of interest. He was replaced as editor by Macvey Napier.
Other characters who contributed to the enterprise included Scottish writers like Sir Walter Scott, scientist John Playfair, philosopher Thomas Brown, orientalist Alexander Hamilton, jurists Henry Cockburn, Sir John Mackintosh and Macvey Napier, essayist Thomas Carlyle, divines Thomas Chalmers and William Hamilton, and economists like James Mill and, most prolifically, John Ramsay McCulloch. English contributors included William Hazlitt, T. Robert Malthus, Robert Torrens and, most actively, Thomas Macaulay. Irish contributors include the politician Henry Parnell and scientist-economist Dionysus Lardner. Notable later economist contributors include Herman Merivale, Richard Whately, Nassau W. Senior and John Stuart Mill.
In 1809, Sir Walter Scott, annoyed at the strong Whiggish atmosphere Jeffrey was imposing, decamped and helped found the Quarterly Review in London, as the Tory response to the ER. The duel between the Edinburgh and Quarterly would run through much of the 19th C. It was an acute but elevated rivalry, driving - not merely driven by - British politics. On a lower rung were the lighter monthlies: the old and gently Whiggish Monthly Review (founded 1749, the first to begin the custom of offering reviews), the High Tory Critical Review (founded 1756, it folded in 1817, its role duly taken by the rabidly ultra-Tory Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine), the Dissenters' Eclectic Review, the Catholics' Dublin Review and many others.By the time the Philosophical Radicals entered the fray with their Westminster Review in 1824, we can safely say all parties and factions of Britain were represented by their own literary review.
In economics, however, the Edinburgh Review had no parallel. . Brougham and Horner produced most of the economic articles until 1818, when John RamseyMcCulloch was brought on board. Until the end of the 1830s, McCulloch used the ER to promote the doctrines of the Classical School. Until the late 19th C., theER was probably the only review that published regular, serious articles on the matter. During the height of the classical era, by one calculation (O'Brien, 2004: 16), fifteen members of the Political Economy Club wrote for the Edinburgh Review, six for the Westminster Review, four for the Quarterly Review and none for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. By 1850, the Edinburgh Review had published 250 economics-related articles, 78 of which were by McCulloch alone. In terms of circulation: Edinburgh Review sold 14,000, Quarterly Review 10,000 Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 6,000 and the Westminster Review 2-3,000.
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