Search Results: Titles starting with E from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

WHITE, Carlos. Ecce Femina: An attempt to solve the woman question. Being an examination of arguments in favor of female suffrage by John Stuart Mill and others, and a presentation of arguments against the proposed change in the construction of society.Hanover, N.H: By the Author 1870Octavo, original publishers purple cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.258, bookplate of the Library of the Philomathaean Society, Gettysburg College and circular blind stamp on the title of Philo Society of Pennsylvania College, a fine copy.First and only edition. Rare. [BL only in copac]ref:199

HARE, Thomas. The election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal: A Treatise. London, Longman 1865
Octavo, brown publishers cloth, rebacked, pp.xlvii, 350, library stamp on half title and title page and final leaf.
Third edition and first published in 1859 with a second edition in 1861. All early editions are rare.
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MACCALL, William. The Elements of Individualism. A series of lectures. London,J.Chapman 1847Octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.vii, 350, 1 adverts, pasted on front blank cutting from an autograph letter in ink Mr G E Harris, most faithfully W.Maccall, a fine copy.First and only editionref:080

TAYLOR, Harriet (Mrs. John Stuart Mill) Enfranchisement of Women (appearing within) Westminster Review. 1851. New York: Published by Leonard Scott & Co, January, April, July, October, 1851.4 issues in one volume, octavo, contemporary quarter black morocco and marbled boards, pp.(4), 143-285, (1), 1-288, 1-140, iv, iv, small Burlington Vermont binder's ticket; small printed and period bookplate of James Dougherty of Johnson, Vermont. Dougherty's copy with his name, occasional scattered pencil marginalia throughout, (this may be a James Dougherty (1796-?) who was an Irish-born minister of some wealth living in Vermont as of 1850.) mildly rubbed and lightly scuffed; various gatherings evenly tanned; a few pages with minor foxing; a very good clean copy. First American edition. The July issue begins with and contains (pp. 149-161) a seminal work on woman suffrage by Harriet Taylor [1807-1858]. This is the American edition of the Westminster Review, first published in London in the same year. While… Read More

BOWER, George Spencer. English Philosophers. Hartley and James Mill. London, Sampson Low 1881
Octavo, publishers red cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black, pp.iv, 250, 32 adverts.
First edition

STEPHEN, Leslie. The English Utilitarians. London, Duckworth & Co., 1900
3 volumes, tall octavo, publishers black cloth, spines lettered gilt, pp.viii, 326; vi, 382; vi, 525 library stamp on titles of Leicester Secular Society, inscribed on half titles Given to the Leicester Secular Society by J F Gould January 1901., a nice set.
First edition of this important study; vol I. Jeremey Bentham, vol II James Mill, vol III John Stuart Mill. Gould was secretary to the Leicester Secular Society 1899-1908
£150ref: 040

4 volumes, octavo, original printed paper covers, entirely uncut and unopened, xxixpp + 434pp; (2) + 420pp; (2) + 384pp; (2) + 381pp, spines darkened, some wear to extremities, an excellent copy.
Not in Kress or Goldsmith

Third edition in French translated from the fifth English edition of 1817 by Pierre Prevost and his son G.Prevost. Previous French editions were published in 1809 and 1823.

MILL,James.[translator] Villers,Charles. An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther: the Work which obtained the Prize on the question proposed in 1802, by the National Institute of France; With a Sketch of the History of the Church, from its Founder to the Reformation; Intended as an Appendix to the Work by Charles Villers. Translated, and Illustrated with Copious Notes, by James Mill, Esq. London, C and R Baldwin 1805
Octavo, contemporary half calf, red morocco label, pp.[2], x, 490, ownership in ink on title of John Cliffe and at head of preface dated 1811, and first page of text, an excellent copy

First Edition in English. In the preface Mill states that the subject attracted his interest as proof of liberality of view on the part of an assembly belonging to a Roman Catholic country. The work was an unsparing display of the vices of the papal system, and an impartial view of the blessings of the Reformation. Mill adds copious notes, embracing quotations from English… Read More

MACAULAY, T.B. Art.VII. Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, the Liberty of the Press, Prisons and Prison Discipline, Colonies, the Law of Nations, and Education. By James Mill Esq. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review, March 1829Octavo, pp.159-189bound with[MACAULAY,T.B.] Art.VI. Westinster Review, (XXII,Art,16,) on the Strictures of the Edinburgh Review (XCVIII,Art,1) on the Utilitarian Theory of Government, and the 'Greatest Happiness Principle'. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review, October 1829Octavo, pp.99-125The historian and whig Macaulay's [1880-1859] famous attack in the Edinburgh Review in 1829 on James Mill's Essays. Bain writes "an attack made in the interest of Whiggism, as against the Radical school. There was much superficiality, as well as flippancy, in Macaulay's articles; yet, they exposed weak points in the statement, if not in the substance of our author's theories; and they are memorable for having created an epoch in the intellectual history… Read More

MERIVALE, Herman. Essays on the Tenure of Land. Art.VI. 1. Systems of Land Tenure in various Countries. A series of essays...1870. 2. Reports respecting the Tenure of Land in Europe. Foreign Office 1869. 3. Programme of the Land Tenure Reform Association: with an explanatory statement. By John Stuart Mill 1871. 4. Landlordism. By David Syme 1871. 5. Nasse on the Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages. Translated by Colonel Ouvry 1871. [Extracted from the Edinburgh Review] Edinburgh Review October 1871
Octavo, pp.449-483, boards, paper label to upper cover.
Herman Merivale [1806-1874], under-secretary for India 1859-1874, prolific writer on colonial and economic questions.
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GROTE,John. An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy. Edited by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor. Cambridge, Deighton,Bell, and Co. 1870
Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.xxiv, 362, 12 adverts, some pencil annotations on the blank endpapers.

First edition. John Grote [1813-1866] was the younger brother of the historian George, who held the chair of moral philosophy at Cambridge from 1855 to 1866. Grote himself issued only one volume on philosophy—Exploratio Philosophica,
Part 1 (1865). After his death three volumes were compiled from his manuscripts including this book An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy in 1870

McCosh, James. An Examination of Mr J S Mill's Philosophy; being a defence of fundamental truth. New York Robert Carter & Brothers 1866
Octavo, publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, a little worn, pp.v + (1) + 7-434 + (2) adverts. First edition. James McCosh [1811-1894], from 1851-68 he was Professor of Logic at Queen's College, Belfast, and thereafter President of Princeton College, New Jersey. He wrote several works on philosophy, including Method of the Divine Government (1850), Intuitions of the Mind inductively investigated (1860), and Laws of Discursive Thought (1870).

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings. London, Longmans, Green 1865
Octavo, 19th century quarter Russia and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 560, small piece of paper cut from the top of the title page removing an owners name, ownership inscription in ink on the initial blank Macdonald (18)90, extensive manuscript annotations and underlings on the first 377 pages in pencil and a few in ink.
First edition.
Mill wrote in his Autobiography
of Hamilton's Lectures of 1860-61 "I was greatly disappointed with the Lectures…I found that the points of apparent agreement between his opinions and mine were more verbal than real; that the important philosophical principles which I had thought he recognised, were so explained away by him as to mean little or nothing, or were continually lost sight of…Now, the difference between these two schools of philosophy, that of Intuition, and that of… Read More

HARE,Thomas. The election of representatives, parliamentary and municipal: A Treatise. London, Longman, Brown 1859
Octavo, half green morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.xxxiv, 338, 24 adverts, outer margin of 2 leaves strengthened.
Rare First edition. The classic treatise on the single transferable vote. 'This great practical and philosophical idea' J.S.Mill

"It was soon after the publication of Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform that I became acquainted with Mr Hare's admirable system of Personal Representation...I saw in this great practical and philosophical idea, the greatest improvement of which the system of representative government is susceptible; an improvement which, in the most felicitous manner, exactly meets and cures, and what before seemed the inherent, defect of the representative system; that of giving to a numerical majority all power, instead of only a power proportional to its numbers, and enabling the strongest party to exclude all weaker parties from making their… Read More