Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population.

Volume I: Book I. Of the Checks to Population in the less civilized Parts of the World, and in Past Times: 1. Statement of the Subject. Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food; 2. Of the general Checks to Population, and the Mode of their Operation; 3. Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society; 4. Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians; 5. Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea; 6. Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe; 7. Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations; 8. Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa; 9. Of the Checks to Population in Siberia, Northern and Southern; 10. Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia; 11. Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet; 12. Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan; 13. Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks; 14. Of the Checks to Population among the Romans; Book II. Of the Checks to Population in the different States of Modern Europe: 1. Of the Checks to Population in Norway; 2. Of the Checks to Population in Sweden; 3. Of the Checks to Population in Russia; 4. (a) On the fruitfulness of Marriages [1803]; 5. Of the Checks to Population in the middle parts of Europe; 6. (a) Effects of Epidemics on Tables of Mortality [1803]; 7. Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland; 8. Of the Checks to Population in France; 9. Of the Checks to Population in France (continued) [Added 1817]; 10. Of the Checks to Population in England; 11. Of the Checks to Population in England (continued) [Added 1817]; 12. Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland; 13. General deductions from the preceding view of Society; Book III. Of the different Systems of Expedients which have been proposed or have prevailed in Society, as they affect the Evils arising from the Principle of Population: 1. Of Systems of Equality. Wallace. Condorcet; 2. Of Systems of Equality. Godwin; 3. (a) Observations on the Reply of Mr Godwin [1803] 3. (b) Of Systems of Equality (continued) [Substituted 1817]; 4. Of Emigration; 5. Of the English Poor Laws; 6. Subject of Poor Laws continued; 7. Of Poor-Laws, continued [Added 1817]; 8. Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor; 9. Of the Definitions of Wealth. Agricultural and Commercial Systems [1803]; 10. Different Effects of the Agricultural and Commercial Systems; 11. Of Bounties on the Exportation of Corn; 12. Of the principal Sources of the prevailing Errors on the Subject of Population.