System Logic by Stuart Mill, Signed (2 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.