[Rarebooks] Bentham, Cruikshank, and James Mill--and Happiness

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer:

[BENTHAM, CRUIKSHANK, AND JAMES MILL].  Thomas Perronet Thompson.
The "Greatest Happiness Principle" in Morals and Government,
Explained and Defended. In Answer to the Edinburgh Review.
Re-published from the Westminster Review, No. XXI; on the 1st
Aug. 1829. Third Edition. Cohn 364; not in Chuo.  T.C. Hansard,
Printer . . . Sold by Robert Heward [etc.], London, 1829.  Later
plain wraps, the original tract laid in, the title and last leaf
dusty, 16 pages; with the Cruikshank engraving taking up most of
the title page. [77375] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=77375 $ 250.00

The first part of the defense of the central principle of
Bentham's utilitarianism, "[e]ach debater proved himself
brilliant in the . . . style of the period", responding to
contributions by James Mill and T.B. Macaulay in the Edinburgh
Review.

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