Autobiography
by Mill, John Stuart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1879. J.S. Mill (1806-1873), philosopher and political economist, certainly one of the leading intellectual lights of the 19th Century, remains relevant today. This is a Very Good copy of the Sixth Edition. Green cloth binding, ruled in black, with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean Text; 325 pages, indexed, with a list of Mill's works appended. Mild rubbing on the edges, and slightly cocked. The gutters have split but are holding well. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sixth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Synopsis
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was educated by his father and through his influence obtained a clerkship at India House. He formed the Utilitarian Society which met to read and discuss essays, and in 1825 he edited Bentham’s Treatise upon Evidence . In 1826 he suffered an acute mental crisis and found that poetry helped him recover the will to live, particularly the work of Wordsworth. Having reconsidered his aims and those of the Benthamite school, he met Harriet Taylor and she inspired a great deal of his philosophy. They married in 1851. Utilitarianism was published in 1861 but before that Mill published his System of Logic (1843), Principles of Political Economy (1848) and On Liberty (1839). His other works include his classic Autobiography (1873). Mill retired in 1858 and became the independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. He spent the rest of his life in France and died in Avignon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001795
- Title
- Autobiography
- Author
- Mill, John Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Sixth Edition.
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1879
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Biography;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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