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MILL, JOHN STUART. Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. In Two Volumes. London: John W. Parker & Son, 1859. 1st ed. 8vo. Orig. cloth, some wear to extremities. Ownership stamps on titles, pencilled marginalia throughout text. Inner hinges weak (2); two broken. $175.00

 

A third volume was issued under this title in 1867 and a fourth in 1876. These first two volumes of essays include studies of Bentham and Coleridge which constitute "the first manifesto of the new spirit which Mill sought to breathe into English Radicalism." --EB 13.