MILL, John Stuart, 1806-1873 :

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

London : Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1873. First edition : with the errata leaf perhaps not found in the earliest copies. The life's record of John Stuart Mill, a book that excited universal astonishment at the details of his educational regime, but one which met with mixed reviews: "Probably no scholar or philosopher has left an equally full and faithful history of his education and his intellectual life" was the sober verdict of "The Saturday Review". Carlyle, in contrast, claimed that "I have never read a more uninteresting book, nor, I should say, a sillier, by a man of sense, integrity, and seriousness of mind ... It is wholly the life of a logic-chopping engine, little more of human in it than if it had been done by a thing of macadamized iron ...". Demy 8vo. vi,(316),[ii]pp. Original green cloth, ruled in black, and ruled and lettered on spine in gilt; some light wear; a little shaken; a few faint creases; occasional pencil annotation, but a good and overall a clean copy.

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