A deluxe edition presenting writings by John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle, both respected 19th Century philosophers from England and Scotland (respectively). With introductions and notes, tissue-guarded sepia frontis portrait of Carlyle, another tissue-guarded image of a room in a home of Carlyle's in London and a facsimile of notes in Carlyle's hand. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked though with moderate chafing & scratching to cloth.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (4), 468 pages
Title: Mill's Autobiography & On Liberty; Carlyle's Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Essay on Scott ("The Harvard Classics" series)
Location Published: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1909
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Categories: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, >>Philosophy/Psychology/Thought
Stock No.: 86522
