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London: Printed by Harding and Wright for John Murray, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (207 x 128 mm). iv, 48 pp., publisher's advertisement to title verso. Bound in later marbled calf, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers (rubbing to extremities). Text with light even age-toning; title and final page a trifle dust-soiled; very minor spotting to first pages; final leaf repaired at gutter and with short clean tear close to paper reinforcement; title leaf with restored short clean tear at inner blank margin slightly touching first letters of printer's mark, also with a narrow stripe torn away from upper corner well away from printed area. Provenance: from the library of stock market expert Andre Kostolany with his engraved bookplate loosly inserted. ---- FIRST EDITION, AND OF EXCEPTIONAL RARITY. David Ricardo (1772-1823) sparked a momentous debate about English central bank policy, the "Bullionist Controversy", with this…