SENIOR, Nassau William.

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Four works on political economy. A collection of four tracts, the first inscribed by Senior: "J T Coleridge esq / from the author". These tracts are from the library of John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), judge of the King's Bench and member of the Privy Council, with his Torrington Square inscription to the front free endpaper. All except Transmission are first editions.Karl Marx judged Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) the "bel-esprit of English economists, well-known, alike for his economical 'science' and for his beautiful style" (Capital, vol. I, sect. III). During Senior's tenure as Drummond professor, he won "wide respect as a lucid exponent of what was still an infant discipline" (ODNB): these works reflect that early development of political economy as an academic discipline at Oxford.John Taylor Coleridge was the nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In his position on the King's Bench, he contributed to Stockdale v Hansard, a landmark constitutional case which reaffirmed that Parliament was not a court superior to the ordinary courts.He was a contemporary of Senior at Oxford: each took the Vinerian scholarship in civil law in successive years from 1813-14, and the two men evidently remained close thereafter. Senior's first book, Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836), originally appeared as an article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana begun by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.These works record lectures delivered by Senior from 1826 to 1829, during his appointment a

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