[Z] Hey, Richard (1745-1835) Three related Dissertations

Hey (Richard) Three related dissertations including A Dissertation on the pernicious effects of Gaming, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for J. & J. Merrill & T. Cadell, 1783, first edition.[bound with] A Dissertation on Suicide, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon for J. & J. Merrill & T. Cadell, 1783, 8vo, first edition, contemporary tree calf, rubbed; together with a separately bound volume Smith (William) and Hey (Richard) A Dissertation on Duelling, London: for B. Uphill [et al.], 1801, 8vo, second edition, rebound in modern cloth, 1 page of publisher's advertisements verso (2)

Richard Hey was an essayist and mathematician. He graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1768 and further from Sidney Sussex College in 1771. In 1792, he published 'Happiness and Rights', a response to Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, but his Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming (1783) is considered his “chief work” and won him a prize of 50 guineas from the University of Cambridge. Further prizes from his alma mater greeted his Dissertation on Duelling (1784) and his Dissertation on Suicide (1785), and the three essays were published together in 1812.