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FOTHERGILL,Samuel. Liberty, Licence and Prohibition: an examination of the arguments of John Stuart Mill, in his work on liberty, in relation to the liquor traffic. Manchester : Tubbs & Brook ; London : W.Tweedie no date circa 1859-1873
Octavo, cloth boards, 26pp

First and only edition of this very rare tract by Samuel Fothergill on temperance and prohibition which he argues is "a mild application of Mr Mill's own fundamental principle, which he lays down as guide in determining how far the Legislature is warranted in limiting personal liberty for the sake of the general well-being..."
Very rare. Wellcome Library only in copac

FOX, Caroline. [edited by Horace Pym.) Memories of Old Friends. Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871. Second edition. To Which are added fourteen original letters from J.S. Mill never before published. London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882Two volumes, octavo, publishers green cloth, spine lettered gilt, shaken, worn, pp. xxxii, 334; xii, 354, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of Caroline Fox.Second edition, including for the first time fourteen letters from John Stuart Mill to her brother Robert Barclay Fox of Penjerrick in Cornwall. The 'extracts' from Caroline Fox's journal contain many references to John Stuart Mill, Carlyle, and Sterling. Her father was Robert Were Fox, the scientist, friend and correspondent with John Stuart Mill.