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Autobiography.

by MILL, John Stuart

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Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. london. 1873. First edition, first issue with misprint on page 113, line 9, the word "on" after effect omitted. Contemporary photograph of Mill tipped-in as frontis. This is unusual. Original green cloth gilt, head of spine frayed and chipped with wear to lower joint, tail and centre. Pages sl. browned. VG.

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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
Addyman Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
37140
Title
Autobiography.
Author
MILL, John Stuart
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Date Published
Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer
Keywords
BIOGRAPHY, DIARIES and LETTERS 19th century

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