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Key to Abbreviations and References - Adam Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 1 The Theory of Moral Sentiments [1759]

Edition used:

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie, vol. I of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982).

Part of: The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 7 vols.

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Key to Abbreviations and References

WORKS OF ADAM SMITH

Corr.Correspondence
EPSEssays on Philosophical Subjects, included among which are:
      Astronomy‘The History of Astronomy’
      Ancient Logics‘The History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics’
      English and Italian Verses‘Of the Affinity between certain English and Italian Verses’
      External Senses‘Of the External Senses’
      StewartDugald Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith’
LJ(A)Lectures on Jurisprudence, Report of 1762–3
LJ(B)Lectures on Jurisprudence, Report dated 1766
LRBLLectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
TMSThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
WNThe Wealth of Nations

References to Corr. give the number of the letter (as listed in the volume of Smith’s Correspondence in the present edition), the date, and the name of Smith’s correspondent.

References to LJ and to LRBL give the volume (where applicable) and page number of the manuscript (shown in the printed texts of the present edition). References to LJ(B) add the page number in Edwin Cannan (ed.), Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms by Adam Smith (Oxford, 1896); and references to LRBL add the page number in John M. Lothian (ed.), Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres by Adam Smith (London, etc., 1963).

References to the other works listed above locate the relevant paragraph, not the page, in order that any edition may be consulted. (In the present edition, the paragraph numbers are printed in the margin.) Thus:

Astronomy, II.4 =‘History of Astronomy’, Sect.II, § 4
Stewart, I.12 =Dugald Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith’, Sect.I, § 12
TMS I.i.5.5 =The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part I, Sect.i, Chap.5, § 5
WN V.i.f.26 =The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chap.i, sixth division, § 26
OTHER WORKS
Bonar, Catalogue 1 [or] 2James Bonar, A Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, ed. 1 (London, 1894) [or] ed. 2 (London, 1932)
EcksteinAdam Smith, Theorie der ethischen Gefühle, translated and edited by Walther Eckstein, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1926)
Rae, LifeJohn Rae, Life of Adam Smith (London, 1895)
Scott, ASSPWilliam Robert Scott, Adam Smith as Student and Professor (Glasgow, 1937)