Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin Tapa dura - 1985

Hamburger, Lotte & Joseph. Troubled lives: John and Sarah Austin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985, notes, index, 261 pp. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in orange cloth with gilt spine titles. Very good dust jacket with a little yellowing. A little foxing on the top of the text block, tight binding, no writing or marks in text.

Toronto 1985 first edition. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-2521-8. Hardcover. Octavo, 261pp., cloth. Fascinating story of brilliant legal philosopher, John Austin, who early in his professional life gave series of university lectures on what is now known as Austinian legal theory, major principles of which he outgrew and completely changed as he matured and studied more, witnessed the 1848 revolution in France, met and read de Tocqueville and so on, but who died without having the energy or will to rewrite his anticipated magnun opus. His wife Sarah then published his old lectures unrevised and in so doing established an Austinian legal theory which dead John would clearly denounce and disown were he alive. Sad story but very interesting reading. Near Fine (light price tage residue on end papers) in VG plus dj. .

Univ of Toronto Pr, 1985-03. Hardcover. Good.