John Stuart Mill — Autobiography

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of the posthumously published autobiography of John Stuart Mill. The first edition, first issue. Without the errata leaf to the rear, and with page 113, line 9, uncorrected.Retaining the original half title.The autobiography of John Stuart Mill.Mill was a philosopher, civil servant, and political economist, and was only of the most influential philosophers in liberalism, with his contributions to political economy and political theory. He was considered to be the most influential English philosopher of the nineteenth century.He promoted economic democracy instead of capitalism, and also saw that the role of women needed to be changed, publishing 'The Subjection of Women', which was one of the earliest works written on the subject by a male.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Mill's other works include 'A System of Logic', 'On Liberty', 'Considerations on Representative Government', 'Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy', and more. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small losses of cloth to back strip head. Small hole in cloth towards fore edge of front board. Head of rear joint starting, with board a touch tender. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .