The Elements of Political Economy Second Edition

Wayland, Francis

Edité par Robinson and Franklin, successors to Leavittt, Lord & Co., New York, 1838

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427 pages; Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, title stamped directly in gilt within a rectangle of double gilt-rules. Small chip missing from the upper right spine, scattered foxing, particularly to the endpapers and the first and last few leaves of the text. Small paper label (shelf classification "VI: 13") from the Princeton Theological Seminary. This volume, a specimen of an early and outstanding American college textbook, was written by one great accademic who stood in a central role in the nascent American University system in the nineteenth century and belonged to another -- albeit the owner was a scholar from the generation following the author's. Both men had another role in common; each had departed accademic life near the beginning of significant careers, in order to have served as pastor of a venerated and significant American congregation. The author, Francis Wayland [1796-1865] left Union College in Schenectady as an ill-paid tutor in order to serve as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boston, only to return to Union after five years. Back at Union College, Wayland was named Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1826. The following year, Wayland became the fourth President of Brown University, in which position he remained for nearly thirty years -- during which he began Brown's Library (now one of the great American libraries), established higher standards of academic discipline, and promoted scientific studies to a position which presaged the current standings of scientific inquiry in American higher education. One can examine two of President Wayland's books to help form an assessment of his role and importance in these areas -- ('Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the United States' (1842) and 'Report to the Corporation of Brown University of 1850.'] While in the Presidencey of Brown, Wayland wrote two text books (on ethics and economics) which quickly became stamdard educational texts through the United States. The volume we offer here, 'The Elements of Political Economy' -- was first published in New York by Leavitt and Lord in 1837. Wayland's "Economics" quickly supplanted Jean-Baptiste Say's "Treatise." from its preeminent position in many American schools. The owner, William Henry Green (1825-1900) signed the front paste-down of this copy of the second edition of Wayland's 'Elements of Political Economy' -- specifying his location as Easton, Pennsylvania. Most likely, this was signed as a student at Lafayette College in that ciy, where he began his undergraduate studies in 1838, the year our copy was published. Green soon became a tutor in mathematics (1840 1842) and then, adjunct professor (1843 1844) at Lafayette. He moved his center of studies to the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he graducated in 1846 -- becoming instructor in Hebrew there from 1846 to 1849. Green was ordained in 1848 and took the position as Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia from 1849 to 1851. He left the leadership of this historic congregation to return to the Princeton Theologial Seminary in 1851 as professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature. He remained for the lest of his life, becoming the senior professor and long-acting head of the PTS. Reportedly, Green declined the offer to become President of Princeton University (in 1868), preferring to remain at the Theological Seminary. Green first published his Grammar of the Hebrew Language in 1861; this book, in its way, was used every bit as universally as Francis Wayland's "Economics" had been. Students and scholars today still make use of Green's. revised edtion of 1888 -- online. William Henry Green died in February, 1900 -- leaving his large library to the Princeton Theological Seminary. The present volume displays the Bookplate recoreding this significant donation -- mounted to the front free-endpaper (and this bookplate is now overstamped "Discard"). The current website of the Wright Library of the Theological Seminary cites, und.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Elements of Political Economy Second Edition
• Éditeur: Robinson and Franklin, successors to Leavittt, Lord & Co., New York
• Date de parution: 1838
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Second Edition.
• État de l'article: Good+
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Economics and Business
  • Political Science