Hume (David) Political Discourses, second edition, with Contents and advertisement leaves following title, contemporary ink note on title "with Ms observations of Mr Hampton, translator of Polybius" and annotations by him throughout, worming to inner margin of first two essays affecting a few letters, D4 defective at head and U3 with tear, neither affecting text, engraved bookplate of William Graves with name of Rev. H.Strangways pasted over, contemporary calf, a little worn, rebacked preserving old red roan label, 12mo, Edinburgh, R.Fleming, for A.Kincaid and A.Donaldson, 1752.

⁂ Most of the essays concern economics.

James Hampton (1721-1778), argumentative English cleric, writer and translator of the Greek historian Polybius. On his death he left his property to William Graves of the Inner Temple.