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TAINE, H. Le Positivisme Anglais. Étude sur Stuart Mill. Paris, Germer Baillière 1864
Octavo, contemporary quarter blue cloth and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, pp.viii, 157
First edition. Hippolyte Taine [1828-1893], French historian, critic and philosopher, who reviewed Mill's Hamilton "with boundless admiration". His deterministic theories, which held that man was the product of heredity, historical conditioning, and environment, became the theoretical basis for the naturalistic school.
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TAYLOR, Harriet (Mrs. John Stuart Mill) Enfranchisement of Women (appearing within) Westminster Review. 1851. New York: Published by Leonard Scott & Co, January, April, July, October, 1851.4 issues in one volume, octavo, contemporary quarter black morocco and marbled boards, pp.(4), 143-285, (1), 1-288, 1-140, iv, iv, small Burlington Vermont binder's ticket; small printed and period bookplate of James Dougherty of Johnson, Vermont. Dougherty's copy with his name, occasional scattered pencil marginalia throughout, (this may be a James Dougherty (1796-?) who was an Irish-born minister of some wealth living in Vermont as of 1850.) mildly rubbed and lightly scuffed; various gatherings evenly tanned; a few pages with minor foxing; a very good clean copy. First American edition. The July issue begins with and contains (pp. 149-161) a seminal work on woman suffrage by Harriet Taylor [1807-1858]. This is the American edition of the Westminster Review, first published in London in the same year. While… Read More

J S Mill's step-daughter and 'chief comfort'
HELEN TAYLOR
[1831-1907] autograph letter signed to Mrs S Woolcott Browne (?) Avignon 12 March 1891
16.5 x 10.5 cm, 3 pages, autograph letter in ink, paper embossed at head HT, a few blemishes and holes to the second leaf where formerly mounted, otherwise in good condition.
£1,100 [plus VAT if applicable]
Helen Taylor, feminist, was the daughter of Harriet Taylor Mill and after her death in 1858 she devoted herself entirely to Mill and became his 'chief comfort'. She took charge of his correspondence and helped him in his work. Together they promoted women's rights. After his death she edited Mill's Autobiography 1873.
Helen Taylor's letters are rarely on the market.
The letter is addressed to 'Dear Madam', which is probably Mrs S Woolcott Browne, Hon Secretary of the Moral Reform Union, who was retiring and to be succeeded by Helen Taylor.
Helen Taylor writes that she is unable to leave Avignon to attend 'the conference of 18th March' as she is… Read More

TENNANT, Charles Utilitarianism explained and exemplified in Moral and Political Government. London, Longman Green 1864Octavo, original publishers brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, cloth faded, a little wear, pp.viii, 463, (1)adverts, an excellent copy.First and only edition ref:063

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de . Memoirs, Letters and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America. Translated from the French by the translator of Napoleon's correspondence with King Joseph. With large additions. Boston, Ticknor & Fields 1862
2 volumes, octavo, publishers cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.x, 11-430, 16 adverts; xi, 12-442, ownership in ink on half title of volume I H J Hubertus Quebec June 6, 1862, a fine copy.
First American edition includes letters to John Stuart Mill dated Nov 10 1836, Nov 15 1839, Dec 18 1840, Feb 9 1859.
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