CHERNYSHEVZSKII,Nikolai. Works by N. Chernishevsky. Supplements and additions to the first book of the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY by Jong Stuart Mipp. Volume III [together with] Ouerki and the MYTHIUAN ECONOMY (II Miaayu) Volume IV. Elindina and Comtsany, Geneva. 1869; H.Georg, Genève & Bale 1870.
2 volumes bound in one, octavo, 19th century boards rebacked, pp.(2), x, (4), 9-276,(2)blank, (1`); (1),viii, (1), 478, (2)blank, 4 index, a few leaves foxed in the second volume, first volume with ownership inscription on the title in Yiddish, Russian text throughout.
Very rare volumes 3 and 4 [of 5] of the Collected Works of the Russian socialist reformer Nikolai Gavrilich Chernyshevzskii [1828-1889] – volume 3 is Additions and Remarks on the 1st Book of John Stuart Mill's Political Economy and volume 4 is Sketches from Political Economy (according to Mill). Both volumes were published in Geneva.
Karl Marx described Chernyshevsky as "the great Russian scholar and critic who has in a masterly way exposed the bankruptcy of bourgeois economics". In July, 1862, Chernyshevsky was arrested and imprisoned for criticizing the established order in Russia.
Price-£650