Smith (Adam).- Philological Miscellany (The), vol.1 only [all published], containing: Adam Smith's 'Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages', pp. 440-479, first edition, a little foxed and browned, small paper flaw tear to lower margin of 2H1, ex-Board of Education Library copy with blind and ink stamps on title, modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, [Alston III 271, 823], 8vo, for the Editor; and sold by T,.Beckett and P.A.Dehondt, 1761.

⁂ Very rare; including the first appearance in print of Smith's influential essay on language and 40pp. of miscellaneous essays by Maupertius. Smith's essay was an expanded version one of his university lectures on rhetoric given at the University of Glasgow in 1762 and was included as an appendix in the third edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments published in 1767.

ESTC lists 6 locations in the UK (BL, 3 Cambridge colleges, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford) and 3 in America (Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, and University of Kansas). COPAC lists a further 5 locations. We have been unable to find any record of it having been sold at auction.