The English Utilitarians.

£300 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The first edition of this insightful history of the Utilitarian movement by Leslie Stephen, founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. The books deal in turn with Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and his son John Stuart Mill, the principle protagonists of British philosophy in the nineteenth century. First edition; 3 vols; 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto of vol. I, slight offsetting to endpapers; publisher's black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top-edges gilt, others uncut, spines slightly faded, very good.

• Binding: Hardcover

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