The Lusiad; or the Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the original Portuguese of Luis de Camöens. By William Julius Mickle. The Second Edition.

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Second edition of William Mickle's translation of Camöens's Lusiad, dedicated to the Duke of Buccleugh, with a 236-page introduction. First published in 1776 by subscription, Mickle's translation was more an adaptation of Camöens's epic in his own style, with plenty of poetic licence. It remained the major translation of Lusiad into the mid-nineteenth century. It is in this second edition that appears for the first time Mickle's critical attack on Adam Smith. As a part of his introductory "History of the rise and fall of the Portuguese Empire in the East", Mickle writes "The application of the example of Portuguese Asia cannot be better enforced than by an examination of the popular arguments relative to the British commerce with India. A recent writer on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, has stood forth as the philosophical champion for the abolition of the Monopoly of the English United East India Company" (p. clxi). For the next 26 pages Mickle criticizes Smith's economics, not only attacking his specific application of his general laissez faire doctrines to the East India Company issue, but launching a full frontal attack on these doctrines themselves. ESTC T145625; Goldsmiths' 11720. Quarto (267 x 201 mm). Engraved frontispiece and folding map of Asia. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine decorated in gilt, red morocco label, sprinkled edges. Front joint cracking but holding very firm, extremities very lightly rubbed, small wormholes to lower margin. A very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 164987

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