ATKINSON, William. Principles of Political Economy; or, The Laws of the Formation of National Wealth: Developed By means of the Christian Law of Government; being the Substance of a Case Delivered to the Hand-Loom Weavers' Commission. London: Whittaker and Co., 1840. 8vo. Errata slip. folding table at the end (errata slip detached). Original tan panelled cloth, spine lettered in gilt (inner hinges split, some light dust-soiling and staining, bumped). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the verso of the front free endpaper [opposite the title] inscribed, "To J. B. [?]Herring Esq., With the Author's regards." With John Hill Burton's Political and Social Economy: Its Practical Applications (Edinburgh, 1849, original cloth) and Richard Jennings' Natural Elements of Political Economy (London, 1855, contemporary half calf). (3)