Title page from The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 1

Part of: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, 2 vols. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 1

Vol. 1 contains a lengthy introduction on Petty’s life and times and economic thought, as well as A Treatise of Taxes (1662), Verbum sapienti (1664), The Political Anatomy of Ireland (1672), and Political Arithmetic (1676).