System Logic Ratiocinative Inductive by Mill John Stuart: Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First printing of Sixth Edition. Longmans, Green and Co., 1865; no later printings indicated; xx, 543pp. / xv, 553, [2, ads]. This copy was owned by Andrew Bisset, biographer of the author's father, James Mill. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards, missing the spine labels. Bindings are tight, sturdy, and square; rubbing to edges and marbled paper, leather is split over corners but shelfwear is otherwise light; liquid staining to Vol. I rear board, paper has puckered, spot faintly visible on verso and front end page as well; marginalia in Vol. I (see below), else text is very good throughout. Both volumes are inscribed "A. Bisset Nov. 1st 1866" on title page, and there is extensive critical commentary in the same ink in the margins of Mill's introductory essay to this sixth edition, entitled "Definition and Province of Logic". Bisset was the author of the entry on James Mill for the 7th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and is mentioned several times in Alexander Bain's 1882 biography of the elder Mill. He was known to be a friend of both father and son. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Other.…

Offprint. Octavo (21cm.); drab stitched wrappers; [349]-384pp. Wrappers rather chipped along extremities, spine partly perished, faint vertical crease, else Very Good overall. Offprint book review of the London, 1843, edition of Mill's three volume work. Inscribed on upper cover to Congressman from Massachusetts Rufus Choate: "For the Honorable Rufus Choate with the Author's respects." The author of the review has additionally mounted a small manuscript cancel at head of p. [349], "An article of the North American Review, October, 1845," with his pencil and manuscript corrections throughout text. Though the review has not author attribution, we find the text reproduced in a volume of works by James Flint inscribed by him to a John Brazer in the same hand. Signed.…

First edition of this classic work on logic. Octavo, original cloth. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by John Stuart Mill, written to Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism. The one-page letter, measuring 3.5 inches by 4.5 inches, reads in full, âMy dear Sir, It will give me the greatest pleasure to dine with you tomorrow. On Saturday I am engaged. Yours ever, J.S. Mill. Thursday.â The recipient, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer widely regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism, the ethical and political theory holding that the rightness of actions and laws should be judged by their tendency to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Written less than a year before Benthamâs death, this brief note reflects the close personal and intellectual bond between the founder of utilitarianism and his most famous successor, uniting on a single page the two central figures of classical utilitarian thought. In fine condition. The piece measures 3.5 inches by 4.5 inches. In very good condition with rubbing and toning. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. First editions in the original cloth are rare. "The statement that John Stuart Mill was Britain's most important philosopher in the 19th century looks like a bold assertion, but in fact it should not be even mildly controversial⦠Mill has no serious rivals" (Dictionary of 19th-Century Philosophers II:792). One of Mill's most important works, System of Logic is "the first major installment of his comprehensive restatement of an empiricist and utilitarian position" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy), setting forth "the fundamentals of the human or 'moral' sciences" (Mander & Sell, 794). "The book had a rapid success, beyond the expectations of its author, and was for many years the standard authority with all who took his side in the main philosophical questions. Mill, in fact was recognized as the great leader of the empirical as opposed to what he called the intuitional school; and few men have had a more marked influence upon the rising intellect of the time" (DNB).…