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GODWIN, William. Of Population. An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an answer to Mr. Malthus's essay on that subject.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. First edition. Tall 8vo., full 19th century morocco, with the gilt stamp of “The Law Society of Upper Canada” on the upper board, raised bands, leather labels, xvi, 17-22, (1)-626pp. Ex-library with the only markings being the Law Society stamp on the title and in the lower margin of a few leaves, outer hinges rubbed and tender otherwise this is certainly a very good copy of this important work.
William Godwin (1756–1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. “Godwin's philosophical importance rests principally on his Political Justice. He wrote other philosophical works, The Enquirer (1798) and Thoughts on Man (1831), but he has become perhaps better known for his novels, the most famous of which is Things as They are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), and for the part he played in literary London from 1783–1836—from his heyday in the 1790s as the radical philosopher who married Mary Wollstonecraft, through the next forty years in which he was variously the butt of attacks by Thomas Malthus, Samuel Parr and a host of anti-jacobin scribes...” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The above work is in fact Godwin's response to Malthus's work, An Essay on the Principle of Population and its inherent criticisms of Godwin's work. Godwin refuted Malthus's ideas and predications about population growth.