Title page, with James Madison signature, of John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (London, 1779) – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of Title page, with James Madison signature, of John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (London, 1779) brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Title page, with James Madison signature, of John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (London, 1779)
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The signature on this title page sets this copy apart: it bears the name of James Madison, later the fourth president and a principal author of the United States Constitution. The book is John Millar's *The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks*, published in London in 1779 by a Glasgow professor of law who argued that social rank grew out of property and the ways people earned their living. Millar was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, and his stage theory of economic and social development was widely discussed in both Britain and America. A reader's name on the page is a physical trace of that exchange of ideas across the Atlantic.
| Created / published | 1779 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Illus. in: John Millar, The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (London, 1779), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring 1980. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 754 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144138 |
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