John Stuart Mill. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition. Inscribed by bibl...
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John Stuart Mill. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition. Inscribed by bibliographer and forger H. Buxton-Forman to his wife. From the James and Deborah Boyd Collection.More Information:
John Stuart Mill. Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition. Octavo. vi, 313, [1, colophon], [2, ads] pages. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, ruled in black, lettered in gilt on spine. Mild rubbing to binding. Bookseller's embossed stamp on front free endpaper. Inscribed by Buxton-Forman to his wife, Laura, on Christmas, 1873 in ink on the front free endpaper and with his pencil notes on the recto of the rear free endpaper. A fine copy with an interesting association.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is perhaps best remembered for his landmark work, Principles of Political Economy (1848), which sought to modify and humanize the otherwise financially driven philosophies expressed by Adam Smith and others, and his radical writings espousing the enfranchisement of women. Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917) wrote superb bibliographies of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, which are still in use today. He conspired with another bibliographer, Thomas J. Wise, to publish forged publications by Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Ruskin, and George Eliot, among others, thus forever staining his reputation.
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