8vo. 250pp. Contemporary blind-stamped grey cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to title. Very light spotting to title and rear blank fly-leaves.

The second edition of a diminutive volume on economics addressed to the 'working-man' by London publisher and author Charles Knight (1791 – 1873), combining two of his previous tracts, The Results of Machinery (1831) and the unpublished 'Capital and Labour'.