Principles of Political Economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (Two Volume Set) (Previously Owned by Julian Hawthorne with his signatures, and also his notes on a separate piece of paper)

John Stuart Mill

Edité par D. Appleton And Company, New York, 1865

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In Two Volumes, From the Fifth London Edition. These volumes were purchased from a great-grandchild of Nathaniel Hawthorne's in Redding, Connecticut. They bear the signature of Hawthorne's son, Julian Hawthorne. His wife, Minne Amelung was living in Redding at the time of her death in 1925. Julian Hawthorne's mother was Sophia Peabody, a painter and illustrator. Julian was a writer and journalist. He wrote in many genres: poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. He also helped to found Cosmopolitan magazine and Collier's Weekly. Late in his life he got into trouble with the law and spent a year in prison. In Volume I, he must have mistakingly thought he was opening up onto the front end paper, when in fact it was the rear end paper, so he signed his name there ( 'Julian Hawthorne, Concord, Massachusetts, Oct. 10th 1866' ). It now appears, hence, upside down. When he turned to the last page he would have realized his error and, in fact, wrote in the identical information on the front end paper as well. On page 43 which is the title page for 'Book I. Production' he signed his name again along with the following: '(?)ays End, Belmont, England, Twicker Lane. Nov. 20th 1875.' On the second front end paper of Volume II he signed his name along with the same Concord address and date, but below that in a blue, as opposed to black, pen he signed his name again along with 'Dresden 1873.' He was in Germany at the time. Between a couple of the pages in Volume II, I found a stiff gray card from 'The Authors Club requesting his (presumably) company at a meeting on March 26th, 1885. Between a couple of other pages I found a piece of paper with four sides, containing penciled notes filling two sides, with a third side 2/3rds filled, the notes appearing to relate to the two volumes, and presumably in his hand. I've provided a photograph of the front side. The photos will show you the covers, the areas of loss on the spines, and the white discoloration on the rear side of Volume II (note that the lighting is making the front and rear look purple, it is actually brown, though direct light seems to bring out a tint of purple). The edges of both volumes are in good shape. The corners have spots of rub-through. Both volumes are very solidly bound. There are no binding issues with either the covers or the pages. The pages are nicely tight. There are no cracks or spaces between the covers and any of the pages or between any of the facing pages in either volume. The interiors of both volumes are in pretty nice shape. There is, what I would describe as, light foxing, amber foxing. Many pages don't have any foxing, many pages do. On only a very few would I describe it as heavier, more in line with a description of 'moderate' foxing. There are a small number of instances where the bottom edges are slightly jagged. I found two or three instances of a bottom corner loss, not coming near to the print, one instance of a tiny bit of bit of paper at the top edge being pulled from one facing pages to the other, not near the print. I didn't see much creasing, but there is a fair amount of crinkling, as you will often find with antiquarian books. I found about a dozen instances of a lightly penned 'x' or line at the margin next to a paragraph. There are no markings, no stampings, anywhere in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And there is no other writing than what I have already mentioned. 'Principles of Political Economy was one of the most important economics or political economy textbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. It was revised until its seventh edition in 1871, shortly before Mill's death in 1873, and republished in numerous other editions. Beside discussing descriptive issues such as which nations tended to benefit more in a system of trade based on comparative advantage, the work also discussed normative issues such as ideal systems of political economy.'.

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• Titre: Principles of Political Economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (Two Volume Set) (Previously Owned by Julian Hawthorne with his signatures, and also his notes on a separate piece of paper)
• Éditeur: D. Appleton And Company, New York
• Date de parution: 1865
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • One-Of-A-Kind
  • Antiquarian
  • Philosophy