A Treatise on Money by Keynes, Sir John Maynard - 1930

London: Macmillan and Co, 1930. First edition. Tables and diagrams to text. [ii], xvii, [i], 363, [1]; [ii], viii, 424 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publsiher's blue-green cloth. Spines slightly sunned, else fine. Small bookplate. First edition. Tables and diagrams to text. [ii], xvii, [i], 363, [1]; [ii], viii, 424 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition of Keynes' first major statement on monetary theory. "In the summer of 1924 Keynes began a fuller academic treatment of monetary theory. This took shape slowly over the next six years and ultimately appeared in two volumes in October 1930 as A Treatise on Money ... The Treatise was the product of a long intellectual struggle to escape from the ideas in which he had been reared, later dubbed 'classical economics'" (ODNB).