A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation by John Stuart Mill, Eighth Edition, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884, 659pp, cloth, 6 x 9", 8vo

Fair condition.  Wear to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped with exposed boards.  Joints are beginning to crack.  Cloth at board edges is torn.  Binding exposed at tail.  Spine is still legible.  Hinges are cracked.  Prior provenance on flyleaf has been crossed out.  Most recent provenance on flyleaf (Richard E. Hothman).  Marginalia throughout textblock and on rear pastedown.  Toning and age-staining throughout textblock.  Please see photos.

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician, and civil servant.  One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.  Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.