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MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873). Osnovaniia politicheskoi ekonomii s nekotorymi iz ikh primenenii k obshchestvennoi filosofii [Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy] . St Petersburg: [n. p.], 1865. First complete edition of Mill’s Principles of political economy in Russian , translated by the economist, nihilist and social critic Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889). Only the first of a projected five books had appeared earlier, as a supplement to the journal Sovremennik . The complete edition appeared in the age of the Great Reform of Imperial Russia,and immediately became part of the debate on capitalism and land reform, being read and absorbed not just by economists but by the wider intelligentsia, permeating politics as well as literature. The outlook provided by utilitarianism became a constituent part of Russian culture, either as a complement to materialism, or as a pernicious perspective to be forcefully rejected. Very rare in institutions (beside the National Library of Russia, Worldcat finds 3 copies only: 1 in US and 2 in Japan, though we add one at the IISG in the Netherlands) as well as at auction (no record in ABPC/RBH). Two volumes, octavo (218 x 142mm) (a few spots and stains, margins to first 2 ll. in vol. 2 slightly trimmed). 19th-c. cloth, spines ruled, direct-lettered and numbered in blind. Provenance : ‘Kady’ (early inscription to titles) - occasional pencil markings - small paper label to upper board of vol. 2.