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Title Page of An Essay on the Principle of Population, Sixth Edition

Thomas Robert Malthus · 1826

The title page of the 1826 sixth edition of Malthus's famous Essay on Population.

The title page of a later edition of Malthus's own major published work.

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Title page of Volume I of An Essay on the Principle of Population, sixth edition, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus, published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, MDCCCXXVI (1826). Black text on white background.
Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, title page, 6th ed., Vol. 1, 1826.

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This is the title page of Volume I of the sixth edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population, by the Rev. T. R. Malthus, published in London in 1826 by John Murray.

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Malthus's Essay argued that population growth tends to outpace food supply, an idea that shaped debates in economics, politics and science for generations. The fact that the book reached a sixth edition shows how widely it was read and discussed during Malthus's own lifetime.

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