On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

No precedence question: Ricardo wrote in English and Murray's London octavo of 1817 is the true first; the French translation (Constancio, with Say's notes) and all continental versions are later. The census hypothesis that the first edition has 'first-issue points in the advertisements and errata' is NOT supported and must not be used. Bonhams's cataloguing states that copies come 'without publisher's advertisements at end as usual,' so presence or absence of the terminal ads is not a reliable point of issue, and no errata leaf is described in any of the catalogue records examined. Identification rests on the 1817 date, the Murray Albemarle-Street imprint, the absence of an edition statement, and the viii, 589, [14] collation.