Studies in Deductive Logic. A Manual for Students.

First edition, inscribed by Jevons on the title-page, "J. N. Keynes, from the author, 2 Oct. 1880". There are also two manuscript corrections to the exercises in chapter XXIII in Keynes's hand. Jevons's student textbook, one of his most popular and accessible publications, was the final work he wrote while the chair of political economy at University College London. A later owner has annotated the blank recto of the frontispiece, recording the book as coming from Samuel Orlinick, a bookseller trading in New York as the Scientific Library Service. According to the owner, Orlinick had purchased several books from Keynes's widow. Inoue and White 198. Octavo. Diagram frontispiece. Publisher's catalogue dated December 1879 at end. Original red pebbled cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards panelled in blind, black endpapers. Spine ends and corners lightly worn, front board with minor abrasion, inner hinges cracked but sound, contents slightly shaken with foxing to a few pages, one gathering with four leaves trimmed a little shorter, one leaf of publisher's catalogue torn at head with loss. A good copy.…