Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical and Historical, reprinted chiefly from the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859.

MILL, John Stuart

Beschreibung

First editions of these two volumes. A third volume of Mill's Dissertations and Discussions was published in 1867. The longest discussion here is of De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Vol. II pp. 1-84). Other topics treated include votes for women, the French Revolution, and the writings of George Grote, William Whewell, Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. PROVENANCE: presentation inscription from Francis Warre-Cornish (1839-1916), author and master at Eton College, and subsequently Vice-Provost there. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 2 volumes, large 8vo, vi, [i], 474; [ii], 563, [1] pp., early 20th-century panelled calf with some light scrapes, spines ruled gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers, gift inscription dated 1864 on first front free endpaper, outer leaves a little foxed, otherwise internally bright and clean, a very good set. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1707731998724

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Titel: Dissertations and Discussions Political, ...

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