James and George Grote Mill

A System of Logic (1856)

MILL,John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence, and the methods of scientific investigation. In two volumes. London, John Parker 1856

2 volumes, octavo, original publishers cloth, printed paper labels, cloth faded, pp.xvi, 528; xii, 531, (1), 8 adverts, volume II partly unopened, contemporary ownership in ink John S Collins 56, some pencil annotations, a fine copy.

Fourth edition with a considerable number of additions, the most important relating to the doctrine of Causation, and to the incessantly renewed attempt to make human conceptions, and supposed incapacities of conception, the test of objective truth.

Price- £200