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Economics.- Davies (David) The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered..., first edition, half-title, errata slip with two lines crossed out in ink and another added in manuscript, contemporary ink signature "Muncaster" (John Pennington 1st Baron Muncaster) on title and with his engraved bookplate, pencil annotations to foot of a couple of leaves (cropped), slight marginal water-staining towards end, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in calf, [Goldsmiths' 16422; Kress B2916], 4to, Bath, printed by R.Cruttwell, for G.G. and J.Robinson, 1795. ⁂ Important work concerning the social conditions of rural labourers; a landmark in scientific social inquiry, being one of the earliest consumer behaviour analyses and preceding Eden's State of the Poor by two years.