Essays on the Restrictive System First Edition
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Rare First Edition of Thomas R. Dew's Essays on the Restrictive System; In the Rare Original Boards
DEW, Thomas R.
Essays on the Restrictive System, Delivered to the Senior Political Class of William and Mary College.
Richmond, VA: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co., 1829.
First edition of one of the most consequential defenses of the Southern political and economic order to emerge from antebellum America, delivered from the lectern of the College of William & Mary by the man who would soon become its president and the intellectual standard-bearer of the proslavery argument. Royal octavo, original publisher's brown cloth backed paper boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom velvet-lined clamshell box. Rare in the original boards.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 151982
