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Key to Abbreviations and References - Adam Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 2b An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 2 [1776]

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. I and II, ed. R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner, vol. II of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981).

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Key to Abbreviations and References

Corr.	Correspondence
ED	‘Early Draft’ of The Wealth of Nations
EPS	Essays on Philosophical Subjects (which include:)
Ancient Logics	‘History of the Ancient Logics and Metaphysics’
Ancient Physics	‘History of the Ancient Physics’
Astronomy	‘History of Astronomy’
English and Italian Verses	‘Of the Affinity between certain English and Italian Verses’
External Senses	‘Of the External Senses’
Imitative Arts	‘Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called the Imitative Arts’
Music, Dancing, and Poetry	‘Of the Affinity between Music, Dancing and Poetry’
Stewart	Dugald Stewart, ‘Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D.’
FA, FB	Two fragments on the division of labour, Buchan Papers, Glasgow University Library.
LJ(A)	Lectures on Jurisprudence: Report of 1762–63.
LJ(B)	Lectures on Jurisprudence: Report dated 1766.
LRBL	Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
TMS	The Theory of Moral Sentiments
WN	The Wealth of Nations
Anderson Notes	From John Anderson’s Commonplace Book, vol. i, Andersonian Library, University of Strathclyde.

References to Smith’s published works are given according to the original divisions, together with the paragraph numbers added in the margin of the Glasgow edition. For example:

TMS I.iii.2.2 =	Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I, section iii, chapter 2, paragraph 2.
WN I.x.b.1 =	Wealth of Nations, Book I, chapter x, section b, paragraph 1.
Astronomy, I.4 =	‘History of Astronomy’, Section I, paragraph 4.

The Table of Corresponding Passages appended to this volume identfies the sections into which the WN is divided and provides for each paragraph the page references in the Cannan editions of 1930 and 1937.

In the case of the lecture notes we have adopted the following practice: references to the LRBL are given in the form ‘LRBL i.8’ (= volume i, page 8 of the original manuscript), with references to the Lothian edition (London, 1963) in parenthesis. In the Lectures on Jurisprudence we have also cited the volume and page reference from the original manuscript (all of which will be included in the Glasgow edition) while retaining page references to the Cannan edition (Oxford, 1896) where appropriate. References to the Correspondence give date of letter and letter number from the Glasgow edition.