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• Key to Abbreviations and References
• [iv] Book Iv, Continued.
• [iv.vi] Chapter VI: Of Treaties of Commerce
• [iv.vii] Chapter VII: Of Colonies
• [iv.vii.a] Part First: of the Motives For Establishing New Colonies
• [iv.vii.b] Part Second: Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies
• [iv.vii.c] Part Third: of the Advantages Which Europe Has Derived From the Discovery of America, and From That of a Passage to the East Indies By the Cape of Good Hope.
• [iv.viii] Chapter VIII: Conclusion of the Mercantile System
• [iv.ix] Chapter IX: Of the Agricultural Systems, Or of Those Systems of Political Œconomy, Which Represent the Produce of Land As Either the Sole Or the Principal Source of the Revenue and Wealth of Every Country
• [v] Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign Or Commonwealth
• [v.i] Chapter I: Of the Expences of the Sovereign Or Commonwealth
• [v.i.a] Part First: of the Expence of Defence
• [v.i.b] Part II: Of the Expence of Justice
• [v.i.c] Part III: Of the Expence of Publick Works and Publick Institutions
• Article I: Of the Publick Works and Institutions For Facilitating the Commerce of the Society
• [v.i.d] And, First, of Those Which Are Necessary For Facilitating Commerce In General A–a
• [v.i.e] of the Publick Works and Institutions Which Are Necessary For Facilitating Particular Branches of Commerce
• [v.i.f] Article II: Of the Expence of the Institutions For the Education of a Youth 1
• [v.i.g] Article III: Of the Expence of the Institutions For the Instruction of People of All Ages
• [v.i.h] Part IV: Of the Expence of Supporting the Dignity of the Sovereign
• [v.i.i] Conclusion of the Chapter
• [v.ii] Chapter II: Of the Sources of the General Or Publick Revenue of the Society
• [v.ii.a] Part I: Of the Funds Or Sources of Revenue Which May Peculiarly Belong to the Sovereign Or Commonwealth
• [v.ii.b] Part II: Of Taxes
• [v.ii.c] Article I: Taxes Upon Rent; Taxes Upon the Rent of Land
• [v.ii.d] Taxes Which Are Proportioned, Not to the Rent, But to the Produce of Land
• [v.ii.e] Taxes Upon the Rent of Houses
• [v.ii.f] Article II: Taxes Upon Profit, Or Upon the Revenue Arising From Stock
• [v.ii.g] Taxes Upon the Profit of Particular Employments
• [v.ii.h] Appendix to Articles I and II: Taxes Upon the Capital Value of Lands, Houses, and Stock
• [v.ii.i] Article III: Taxes Upon the Wages of Labour
• Article IV: Taxes Which, It Is Intended, Should Fall Indifferently Upon Every Different Species of Revenue
• [v.ii.j] Capitation Taxes
• [v.ii.k] Taxes Upon Consumable Commodities
• [v.iii] Chapter III: Of Publick Debts
• Appendix
• Textual Schedules
• Schedule A. Emendations of Accidental Readings
• Schedule B. Excluded Variants
• Schedule C. Line–end Hyphenation
• Table of Corresponding Passages

Schedule A. Emendations of Accidental Readings

This collation records all instances where the punctuation, spelling, or other formal characteristics of text 3 have been altered in the printer’s copy for the present edition. The preferred reading now introduced appears first, without text reference if entered by the editors, with reference if transferred from some other text. After the rule the reading disallowed is then given, together with citation of 3 and any other editions where it occurs. In this second entry a tilde or curved dash (∼) represents the same word as that first cited. In either entry a caret (_⁁) denotes a punctuation mark there omitted but present in the other account.

Throughout in this and the following schedules the typography is so arranged to avoid line–end hyphenation of separable compounds, as the intrusion of hyphens not originally present would, in this circumstance, produce an ambiguous reading. Certain house–style and other features extraneous to the text are disregarded.1

10.4 always, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 14.20 taken 1–2, 4–6| tsken 3. 15.7 manufactories, 4–6|∼_⁁ 1–3. 15.35 man, 1–2|∼_⁁ 3–6. 16.25 more, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 18.1 perform, 1–2|; 3–6. 20.24 valve, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 20.24 communication, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 21.8 is, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 21.12 a particular 1–2, 4–6| aparticular 3. 22.20 accommodation, 1|∼_⁁ 2–6. 48.14 purchasing; 3e, 4–6|∼_⁁ 2A–3. 55.18 conveniencies 1–2| conveniences 3–6. 149.19 scholars,’ 6|∼,_⁁ 1–5. 149.19 ‘and 6|_⁁∼ 1–5. 149.22 wisdom,’ 6|∼,_⁁ 1–5. 149.22 ‘ought 6|_⁁∼ 1–5. 155.26 obvious,’ 5–6|∼,_⁁ 1–4. 155.27 ‘that 5–6|_⁁∼ 1–4. 193.12 does,|∼_⁁ 1–6. 193.12 not,|∼_⁁ 1–6. 234.30 the real Price of| om. 1–6. 240.1 cattle is 1–2, 4–6| cattleis 3. 242.26 butcher’s–meat 4–6|∼_⁁∼ 1–3. 264.2 the 1–2, 4–6| the the 3. 310.33 premium. 2, 4–6|∼_⁁ 3. 431.3 sovereign 1–2, 4–6| soreign 3. 435.15 never 1–2, 4–6| neevr 3. 556.4 Motives 4–6| motives 1–3. 564.29 Prosperity 5–6| prosperity 1–4. 586.27 place 1–2| places 3–6. 599.12–13 and sell 1–2, 4–6| andsell 3. 663.4 Land,|∼_⁁ 1–6. 688.16 inconveniencies 6| inconveniences 1–5. 757.22–23 four trades 4–6| fourt rades 3. 764.36 Greek 1–2, 4–6| Greck 3. 797.34 allegiance to 1–2, 4–6|∼ to to 3. 814.26 Conclusion of the Chapter| Conclusion 1–6. 828.4 Rent; 1, 5–6| rent. 2–4. 836.13 taille 1| tallie 2–6. 836.18 taille 1| tallie 2–6. 851.25 163, 166,|∼. ∼. 3–6. 858.15 upon the Capital| om. 1–6. 861.13 three–pence 1–2|∼_⁁∼ 3–6. 862.25 ground–rents 1–2, 4–6|∼_⁁∼ 3. 864.34 one–tenth 1–2, 4–6|∼_⁁∼ 3. 877.37 conveniencies 1,6| conveniences 2–5. 890.20 3083l.6s.8d. 4–6|∼l.∼s.∼d. 1–3. 892.19 twenty–five, 1–2, 4–6|∼–∼_⁁ 3. 904.29 vingtiemes 1–2, 4–6| vingtiems 3. 906.26 conveniencies 1–2, 4–6| conveniences 3. 921.27–923.22 [l.s.d. entries in italic type] 4–6| [entries in roman] 1–3. 922.17 72, 289, 673l. 1–2, 4–6|∼, ∼, ∼_⁁. 3. 924.2 fund 1–2, 4–6| und 3. 933.9 land–tax 1–2|∼_⁁∼ 3–6. 934.20 land–tax 1–2, 4–6|∼_⁁∼ 3. 941.34 History 1| Hist. 2–6. 942.12 Pennsylvania, 1–2, 5–6|∼. 3–4. 949.18 wit _⁁ 4–6|∼, 3.

[1 ]The collation excludes successive modifications of the titles in 1–6 and of Smith’s own Table of Contents, but does represent the editors’ necessary revision of chapter and section headings within text to bring these into conformity with the Contents as finally arranged for 3. Also excluded are the volume caption headings for the three volumes of 3 (here beginning on pages 1, 330, 663) and all references originally appearing on or below the direction lines. Shoulder–notes have been transferred, in summary form, to the running–title line, abbreviated headings extended but terminal periods removed, paragraph numbers supplied in left margins, small capitals at the beginning of each paragraph reduced to lower case, reiterated quotation marks deleted, and long ‘s’, digraphs and ligatures generally converted to modern style.