MILL, John Stuart, and Nikolai Gavrilovich CHERNYSHEVSKY, translator.
Osnovaniia politicheskoi ekonomii s nekotorymi iz ikh primenenii k obshchestvennoi filosofii … Pervoe polnoe izdanie. V dvukh tomakh. Izdanie A.N. Pypina. [Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy … First complete edition. In two volumes. Edited by A.N. Pypin].
St. Petersburg, [n.p.], 1865.
Two vols, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], iii, [1], [5]-32, [2], [33]-564; [4], xii, 507, [1]; a few spots and stains, occasional pencil side- and under-lining, the fore and lower margins of the title-page and following leaf to volume two slightly trimmed, early ownership inscription ‘Kady’ to both title-pages; a good copy in near-contemporary cloth, spines ruled, direct-lettered and numbered in blind, small paper label to the upper board of vol. II.
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Osnovaniia politicheskoi ekonomii s nekotorymi iz ikh primenenii k obshchestvennoi filosofii … Pervoe polnoe izdanie. V dvukh tomakh. Izdanie A.N. Pypina. [Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy … First complete edition. In two volumes. Edited by A.N. Pypin].
First complete edition of Mill’s Principles in Russian, translated by the economist, nihilist and social critic Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), ‘corrected and expanded from the most recent (fifth) edition of Mill’s book, published in 1864 in New York’ (‘From the publisher’, our translation).
‘In the present edition, Mill’s Principles of Political Economy appears in full for the first time in Russian. The translation of this work was begun in Sovremennik in 1861 [actually 1860], but only the first book, i.e. one of five, was put forward complete; the remaining essays were presented in short extracts only’ (ibid.). Chernyshevsky’s long footnotes accompanying the first appearance of the text had often been critical of Mill, and they are here curtailed in favour of explanatory rather than analytical apparatus. The editor was Chernyshevsky’s cousin Aleksandr Pypin – a contributor to Sovremennik, of which Chernyshevsky was chief editor.
Very rare: OCLC shows copies at Waseda and the International Institute of Social History only; there are also three copies at the National Library of Russia.
