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Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) The Subjection of Women.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1869.
First edition, publisher's presentation copy, with blind stamp to title, "Presented by the Publishers," octavo, two ink ownership inscriptions to half-title, one crossed out; bound in very good publisher's brownish orange cloth; handwritten notes in pencil on back endleaves; housed in custom buckram folding slipcase, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
"The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes--the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other."
