£120
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 632, 55 [ads], [1]. Original brown cloth, spine lettered direct in gilt. A touch toned. Somewhat shaken, a little rubbed and marked, worn to extremities. Ownership inscription of E. Monteith Macphail to half-title, some scattered marginal annotations.
'Though The Elements of Politics, like Sidgwick's other treatises, never achieved any popular success, for some years it enjoyed considerable academic standing (a 4th edition was published in 1919)' (ODNB). This copy belonged to Earle Monteith Macphail (1861-1937), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Madras.
