NMLP P-038157 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Robert Malthus · J. Johnson, London · 1798

The controlling point is negative and simple: the first edition is anonymous — no author's name anywhere on the title page — under the title 'An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038157 for "An Essay on the Principle of Population" by Thomas Robert Malthus (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038157, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).