[Commonplace book], [1820s].Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834engHolograph commonplace book kept by Grenville in a printed commonplace book form. There are extensive notes and comments on his reading of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and of Smith's translator and critic Germain Garnier; on Dugald Stewart's Moral Philosophy; Bishop Butler's Analogy; and Sismondi's Nouveau principe d'economie politique. Topical headings include "Indications of Character;" "Consumption;" "Debt, Public;" "Foreign trade;" "Morals;" "Luxury;" and "Population."Grenville's comments on "Justice" include reflections on "the crimes and miseries of the French Revolution" and on "revolutionary principles." His extensive discussion of "Production" is unsourced and may be original to himWith: ALS from Peter Elmsley, 1822 Feb 1, and ALS draft in reply by Grenville, 1822 Feb 7, commenting on ancient money and on Smith's crediting of all value in manufactures to "labour."Binding: contemporary green vellum over boards.A new commonplace book; being an improvement on that recommended by Mr. Locke, properly ruled throughout with a complete skeleton index, and ample directions for its use.... London: Printed for Walker & Edwards, 44 Paternoster Row.