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87 KROPOTKIN, Peter. Fields, Factories and Workshops. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1899 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Charles Rowley from an old friend P. Kropotkin February 1899”. The British socialist Charles Rowley (1839–1933), a frame-maker by trade, was a friend and admirer of Kropotkin for many years. Rowley founded the Ancoats Brotherhood in 1878, a radical society aiming to bring art and literature to the working classes, influenced by William Morris’s vision of linking craft knowledge with high culture. The Brotherhood attracted many leading intellectuals and artists, both as members and to give lectures, the speakers including Morris, Ford Madox Brown, George Bernard Shaw, and Kropotkin himself. Kropotkin’s Fields, Factories and Workshops was a landmark text in anarchist literature, arguing for a way of living based on co-operation with a focus on local production rather than competition. Octavo. Original pale green cloth, titles to spine gilt, plain endpapers. Blackwell’s bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Expertly recased, hinges strengthened, front free endpaper with minor peripheral chips and split in gutter but holding, rear hinge with slight split, extremities a little bumped and rubbed, toning to endpapers and foxing around initial and final leaves. A sound copy. £4,750 [120262] 88 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT, M. le Marquis de. Examen de la théorie et de la pratique du système pénitentiaire. Paris: Delaunay, Libraire, 1840 First edition of the author’s treatise on prisons, advocating reform modelled on the principles outlined by John Howard. Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
(1779–1863) was a man of letters and a politician under the First French Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Octavo (204 × 130 mm). Late 20th-century green quarter morocco, red morocco label, raised bands, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, edges speckled black. Spine faded to brown, light foxing throughout. A very good copy. £625 [91102] 89 LASSALLE, Ferdinand. Das System der erworbenen Rechte. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1861 Inscribed to his brother-in-law First edition of Lassalle’s principal work, presentation copy to his brother-in-law Ferdinand Friedland (1810–1868), husband of his sister Friederike, inscribed on the first title page, “Meinem lieben Schwager Ferdinand Friedland FL”. Schumpeter describes the work as “a brilliant piece of legal sociology that dazzled many a professional jurist” ( History of Economic Analysis , p. 454). “Richer in ideas than Louis Blanc, more effective than Rodbertus and Lorenz von Stein, all of whom stimulated him, Lassalle preached the brand of state socialism which still dominates certain sections of the Social Democratic Party” (Meyer in Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences , p. 184). 2 volumes, octavo (213 × 134 mm). Contemporary quarter diced roan and ribbed cloth, spines decorated and lettered gilt, marbled edges. Printed in Gothic type. Spine extremities lightly rubbed; a very good copy. ¶Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis , Routledge, 1987; Stammhammer, Bibliographie des Sozialismus I , p. 127; Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, IX , p. 184. £1,750 [147044]
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