A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Priciples of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation [Two volumes, complete]

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.…