Mill in Czech
MILL, John Stuart; Jan VÁŇA, translator.
O Individualitě. Z anglického jazyka přeložil J. Váňa … Váňa … Prague, Militký and Novák, 1880.
8vo, pp. 16; a very good copy, untrimmed, in the original yellow printed paper wrappers, lower corner of wrapper and title slightly trimmed away, rear cover dusty.
First edition in Czech, very rare, of Mill’s ‘On Individuality’, being chapter three of On Liberty (1859) – the first portion of that text to appear in Czech, and perhaps the earliest appearance of anything by Mill in that language. The translator was Jan Váňa (1847–1915), whose output also included translations from Gibbon, Emerson, Dickens, Ruskin, and Samuel Smiles.
Not in OCLC or Library Hub, which show only a single copy of the second edition (1881), at the British Library.