Wealth of Nations:Inquiry into the nature and causes/by Adam Smith:edited by Edwin Cannon

The text of the present edition is copied from that of the fifth, THE the last published before Adam Smith's death. The fifth edition has been carefully collated with the first, and wherever the two were found to disagree the history of the alteration has been traced through the intermediate editions. With some half-dozen utterly insignificant exceptions uch as a change of these' to "those,' 'towards' to 'toward,' and several haphazard substitu tions of conveniences' for 'conveniencies,' the results of this collation are all recorded in the footnotes, unless the difference between the editions is quite obviously and undoubtedly the con sequence of mere misprints, such as 'is' for 'it,' 'that' for 'than,' becase' for 'because'. Even undoubted misprints are recorded if, as often happens, they make a plausible misreading which has been copied in modern texts, or if they present any other feature of interest.