First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 462, [6, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black and gilt, covers with double black fillet borders, edges untrimmed, brown coated endpapers. A very fine, notably bright copy. London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882.
An ambitious work on ethics in which Stephen ‘summed up, in light of his study of Mill, Darwin, and Herbert Spencer, his final conclusions on the dominant problems of life’ (ODNB).
