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Autobiography
by Mill, John Stuart
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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DORCHESTER, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hardback. Fair. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. London, 1873, first edition, first issue with the misprint on page 13 reading "successively"; large 8vo, pp vi, 313, [iv, being erratum and list of books by the same author]; original green pebbled cloth, spine gilt, covers and spine a little dulled and rubbed at the corners and spine ends; chocolate brown end papers, hinges cracked internally and hinges therefore a littleweak in consequence but generally a reasonable, clean copy; a few pencilled notes on the last page list referring to other books by Mill.
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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- Bookseller
- Chesil Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000325
- Title
- Autobiography
- Author
- Mill, John Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1.42 lbs
- Keywords
- liberty; liberal; just society Historical, Literary, Philosophers, Political
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Politics; Literature and Language - Chesil 3; History and Society - Chesil 1";
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