WHEWELL, William.

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Six Lectures on Political Economy. Delivered at Cambridge in Michaelmas Term, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From the Author" on the half-title, one of a small number privately printed for distribution among the author's friends and colleagues. As master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1841 to 1866, William Whewell (1794-1866) was responsible for the tuition of the future Edward VII, who began his studies there in 1861. In this role he prepared these six lectures at the direction of Prince Albert, typically described here as "one of the wisest and best fathers who has ever lived" (p. vii). Whewell himself was deeply immersed in the intellectual currents of his time: he was the driving force in Cambridge's establishment of an undergraduate degree in political economy, also in 1861.

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