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MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Considerations on Representative Government. London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861. 8° (221 x 140mm). 2 leaves of advertisements at end. Original light brown cloth, dark brown endpapers (lightly soiled and a little rubbed, corners bumped), morocco-backed green cloth case. Provenance: Purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 5 March 1940, $15. FIRST EDITION of a work which sought 'to fulfil the message of On Liberty by turning "toleration" and "many-sidedness" into a higher synthesis' (Bruce Mazlish James and John Stuart Mill, 1975, p.395). Macminn p. 93.
J.S. MILL. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. 8° (118 x 121mm). Uncut in original light brown cloth, dark brown endpapers (soiled, corners bumped), morocco-backed green cloth case. Provenance: purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 11 March 1940, $17. FIRST EDITION. Mill wrote the first draft of his treatise in Avignon in 1860, and revised it there in 1868. It restated the analogy between women's slavery and negro slavery, both rooted in the law of the strongest, but also pointed out the crucial difference between the two. 'Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments' (see Mazlish p. 339). (2)
J.S. MILL. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. 8° (118 x 121mm). Uncut in original light brown cloth, dark brown endpapers (soiled, corners bumped), morocco-backed green cloth case. Provenance: purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 11 March 1940, $17. FIRST EDITION. Mill wrote the first draft of his treatise in Avignon in 1860, and revised it there in 1868. It restated the analogy between women's slavery and negro slavery, both rooted in the law of the strongest, but also pointed out the crucial difference between the two. 'Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments' (see Mazlish p. 339). (2)
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