First paperback edition. 8vo. 112 pp. Original printed wrappers (paperstock slightly browned, covers unevenly toned with light wear and creasing to edges, small contemporary booklabel of ‘W. Gray Williams, Liverpool’ to front cover). London, Watts & Co, 1904.
An attractive paperback edition of Mill’s most extended contributions to the philosophy of religion, originally published posthumously in 1874 with an introduction by Mill’s stepdaughter, the philosopher and feminist Hellen Taylor, who had assisted Mill since the death of her mother in 1858. The first two essays were written between 1850 and 1858 and the third considerably later, between 1868 and 1873.
