MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy . London: J.W. Parker, 1848. 2 volumes, 8°. (Lacking half-title in vol.II, both titles very lightly foxed). Contemporary green calf gilt, later lettering pieces on spines, marbled edges (spines rubbed). Provenance : Walter John Heathcote (armorial bookplate).
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy . London: J.W. Parker, 1848. 2 volumes, 8°. (Lacking half-title in vol.II, both titles very lightly foxed). Contemporary green calf gilt, later lettering pieces on spines, marbled edges (spines rubbed). Provenance : Walter John Heathcote (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Mill's best known work. 'He aimed in fact at producing a work which might replace in ordinary use the Wealth of Nations , which in his opinion was "in many parts obsolete and in all imperfect"... His book is very far indeed from being a "modern Adam Smith". It is an admirably lucid, and even elegant, exposition of the Ricardian economics, the Malthusian theory being of course incorporated with these...', Encyclopaedia Britannica . Einaudi 3907; Goldsmiths' 25525; Kress C.7500; PMM 345. With Mill's Autobiography (London, 1873). (3)
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy . London: J.W. Parker, 1848. 2 volumes, 8°. (Lacking half-title in vol.II, both titles very lightly foxed). Contemporary green calf gilt, later lettering pieces on spines, marbled edges (spines rubbed). Provenance : Walter John Heathcote (armorial bookplate).
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy . London: J.W. Parker, 1848. 2 volumes, 8°. (Lacking half-title in vol.II, both titles very lightly foxed). Contemporary green calf gilt, later lettering pieces on spines, marbled edges (spines rubbed). Provenance : Walter John Heathcote (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Mill's best known work. 'He aimed in fact at producing a work which might replace in ordinary use the Wealth of Nations , which in his opinion was "in many parts obsolete and in all imperfect"... His book is very far indeed from being a "modern Adam Smith". It is an admirably lucid, and even elegant, exposition of the Ricardian economics, the Malthusian theory being of course incorporated with these...', Encyclopaedia Britannica . Einaudi 3907; Goldsmiths' 25525; Kress C.7500; PMM 345. With Mill's Autobiography (London, 1873). (3)
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