This collection gathers together contemporary and international comments and reviews on the works of Adam Smith, published and unpublished.

This collection gathers together comments and reviews to all the works of Adam Smith, published and unpublished. All introductions to the later editions of his works, either in English or in translation, are included as well as the editor's notes (where possible). Volume One contains contemporary comments, letters and reviews on Smith's works from his Edinburgh lectures to the posthumous Essays on Philosophical Subjects . The second and third volumes contain introductions, supplementary chapters and notes to the early English editions, together with early reviews. They also include some critical remarks on his moral philosophy in the early nineteenth century and two studies by representative writers of the century. The remaining three volumes focus on overseas responses to his work.

Volume I. Contemporary Responses to the First of the Posthumous Works 1. Letters to and from Adam Smith The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith [1987] 2. Joshua Reynolds Letters on Adam Smith Portraits [1952] and Henry MacKenzie Literature and Literati The Literary Correspondence and Notebooks of Henry MacKenzie [1989] 3. Reviews
3.1. Reviews of the Theory of Moral Sentiments Annual Register [1759] Critical Review [1759] Monthly Review [1759] 3.2. Reviews of the Wealth of Nations Annual
Register [1776] Critical Review [1776] London
Magazine [1776] London Review [1776] Monthly Review [1776] 3.3. Reviews of the Essays on Philosophical Subjects British Critic [1795] Monthly Review [1797] 4. Pamphlets against or for Adam Smith
4.1. Arthur Lee An essay in vindication of the continental colonies of America, from a censure of Mr. Adam Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. With some reflections on slavery in general [1764] 4.2. George Horne A letter to Adam Smith L.L.D. on the life, death, and philosophy of
his friend David Hume Esq. By one of the people called Christians [1777] 4.3. Samuel Jackson Pratt An apology
for the life and writings of David Hume, Esq. with a parallel between him and the late Lord Chesterfield: to which is added an address to one of the people called Christians, by way of reply to his letter to Adam Smith L.L.D. [1777] 4.4. Alexander Carlyle A letter to his grace the duke of
Buccleugh on national defence, with some remarks on Dr. Smith's chapter on the subject in his book entitled, 'An enquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of the nations' [1777] 4.5. M.J. Mickle A candid examination of the
reasons for depriving the East-India Company of its charter, contained in 'The history and management of the East-India
Company, from its commencement to the present time.' Together with strictures on some of the self-contradictions and historical errors of Dr. Adam Smith in his reasons for the abolition of the said company [1779]
5. Occasional comments
on the works of Adam Smith
5.1. John Anderson Notes taken from Adam Smith's lectures Commomnplace Book 5.2 Alexander Carlyle Anecdotes and characteris of the times [1805] 5.3 Alexander Fraser Tytler Memoirs of the life and writings of Henry Home of Kames, one of the senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland: containing sketches of the progress of literature and general improvement in
Scotland during the greater part of the eighteenth century [1807] 5.4 William Richardson An account or particulars in the life and characters of the rev. Mr. Archibald Arthur, late professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow [1803] 5.5 George Jardine Outlines of ph