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livres rares, Paris, 1871, n. 215), was printed in an edition of only five or six copiesfor friends, as it was too racy to be published in France at that time.COPAC lists British Library only. WorldCat shows copies at Rijksmuseum,Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and three copies in US: Cornell, Syracuse, andNorthwestern.THE RULES OF DEMOCRACY80. MILL, John Stuart. Considerations on representative government. London,Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861.Tall 8vo, pp. viii, 340 + 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements; title and edges lightlybrowned and extreme leaves lightly spotted, as usual; a very good copy, uncut inthe original publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered gilt, a little bumped atextremities; ownership inscription (Belper) to front free end-paper. £1750First edition, the most important of Mill’s political works following his Onliberty (1859). In this, his major work on political institutions, Mill ‘discusses towhat extent forms of government are a matter of choice, the criterion of a “goodform of government”, and explains his belief that representative government is thebest form of government because it demands the most from its citizens andencourages their development. For this reason he commended the plan forproportional representation… as “among the very greatest improvements yet madein the theory and practice of government”’ (Sabine, 667). ‘It is a wide-ranging book,and its interest lies as much in the discussion of general principles as in theparticular recommendations regarding the ballot, proportional representation, andplural voting, not to mention the treatment of local government, federalism, andnationality’ (IESS).81. MOMA. PONTUS HULTEN, K.G. The Machine asseen at the end of the mechanical age. New York,MOMA, 1968.4to, pp. [2], 216, [2]; with numerous monochromephotographic illustrations; a fine copy, in the originalpublisher’s binding of colour-embossed tin. £250Limited edition exhibition catalogue, in its striking originalbinding.