Speech of J.Stuart Mill Esq., M.P. for Westminster upon the Reform Bill, delivered in the House of Commons, April 13th, 1866.
by Mill,John Stuart
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MILL,John Stuart. Speech of J.Stuart Mill Esq., M.P. for Westminster upon the Reform Bill, delivered in the House of Commons, April 13th, 1866. From the "Daily Telegraph." London, Diprose & Bateman 1866
Octavo, cloth boards, spine lettered gilt, pp16, title lightly dust stained, with 2 other works bound in and described below, H.R.Fox Bourne, John Stuart Mill: Notices of his life and works 1873 and John Stuart Mill, England and Ireland 1868
First and only edition . Rare no copy in Copac.
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MILL,John Stuart. England and Ireland. Second edition. London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer 1868 Octavo, grey boards, pp.44 2nd edition
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FOX-BOURNE,H.R. and others. John Stuart Mill: Notices of his Life and Works. . Together with Two Papers written by him on the Land Question. Reprinted from the Examiner. London, E.Dallow 1873 Octavo, pp.vi, (2), 75.
First edition. Includes W.T.Thornton, His Career in the India House; Henry Trimen, His Botanical Studies; W.Minto, His Miscellaneous Criticisms; J.H.Levy, His Work in Philosophy; W.A.Hunter, His Studies in Morals and Jurisprudence; J.E.Cairnes, His Work in Political Philosophy; Henry Fawcett, His Influence at the Universities, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, His Influence as a Practical Politician; Frederic Harrison, His relation to Positivism; W.A.Hunter, His Position as a Philosopher. Mill's papers are Advice to Land Reformers and Should public bodies be required to sell their lands?
Mill had been elected Rector of the University of St Andrew's by the students. He wrote of his Inaugural Address there "I gave expression to many thoughts and opinions which had been accumulating in me through life, respecting the various studies which belong to a liberal education, their uses and influences, and the mode in which they should be pursued to render their influences most beneficial. The position taken up, vindicating the high educational value alike of the old classic and the new scientific studies, on even stronger grounds than are urged by most advocates, and insisting that it is only the stupid inefficiency of the usual teaching which makes these studies be regarded as competitors instead of allies, was, I think, calculated, not only to aid and stimulate the improvement which has happily commenced in the national institutions for higher education, but to diffuse juster ideas than we often find, even in highly educated men, on the conditions of the highest mental cultivation". J S Mill, Autobiography p.307.
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- Speech of J.Stuart Mill Esq., M.P. for Westminster upon the Reform Bill, delivered in the House of Commons, April 13th, 1866.
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- Mill,John Stuart
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- Diprose & Bateman
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- Date Published
- 1866
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Hamish quickly realised this was not for him and started to focus on Arabic and economic books and the social sciences. Through knowledge and research he built up a strong and friendly working relationship with the Japanese, travelling to Japan often. He also traded in Arabia, the US and Europe.
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We can remember how sacks of catalogues would leave the house and go off to museums and institutions across the world, and answers would come back via telex. This was a world before the internet, mobile phones and faxes and computers were only just coming in.
Among his proudest sales were the 14th century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad (pictured here); The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod; The library of Sir John Hicks; The Betjeman Library; typescript/manuscript of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico Philosophicus; The Felibriges Library of Musée Theodore Aubanel, Avignon; as well as collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith.
He was resolute in his independence and had many friends and colleagues in the book business, but he never did a book fair ("I am not a book fairy") and refused to join any trade associations.
He will be remembered by the family as a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great source of fun and interest; for Hamish, above all, family came first. His business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.
Rare book specialist Hamish Riley-Smith, who died on August 10, did not originally intend to become a dealer.
He went to Trinity College Dublin, where he read economics and met our mother Brigitta (Gita) von Wagner. He planned to work in the family brewing business, John Smith's, and spent seven years learning the craft at Whitbread's. But after all the family interest in John Smith's was sold in 1972, he looked for a new career.
In 1974 he started Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books. He had no formal training in the book business, other than an acute awareness of business and a degree in economics. He started, in his own words, as a runner, taking one book to another dealer and making a small margin.
Hamish quickly realised this was not for him and started to focus on Arabic and economic books and the social sciences. Through knowledge and research he built up a strong and friendly working relationship with the Japanese, travelling to Japan often. He also traded in Arabia, the US and Europe.
Sacks of catalogues
We can remember how sacks of catalogues would leave the house and go off to museums and institutions across the world, and answers would come back via telex. This was a world before the internet, mobile phones and faxes and computers were only just coming in.
Among his proudest sales were the 14th century Qur'an manuscript of Mameluk Sultan Al Malik Al Nasir Muhammad (pictured here); The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod; The library of Sir John Hicks; The Betjeman Library; typescript/manuscript of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractus Logico Philosophicus; The Felibriges Library of Musée Theodore Aubanel, Avignon; as well as collections of Isaac Newton; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Shakespeare; William Petty; Robert Owen and Adam Smith.
He was resolute in his independence and had many friends and colleagues in the book business, but he never did a book fair ("I am not a book fairy") and refused to join any trade associations.
He will be remembered by the family as a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a great source of fun and interest; for Hamish, above all, family came first. His business will continue to be run by his wife Gita and two sons, Damian, director of Paragraph Publishing, and Crispian, director of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd.
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