Author: LOCKE, John
Title: An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Description: Boston, Manning & Loring, 1794. Hardcover. 16mo. Full calf with gilt spine rules and gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label. viii, 250pp. Good. Binding edgeworn and scuffed, with tiny chips at spine head and spine lettering rubbed; text block tight but moderately and irregularly age toned, with endpapers and preliminary leaves more so; front endpaper rough and a bit chipped at outer edge; contemporary ownership signature at head of title page and at bottom a small convent inkstamp. Decent copy of the first American edition of the best-known and groundbreaking 1690 work on grasping human knowledge by the Enlightenment thinker nicknamed the "father of liberalism" (1632-1704), as condensed with Locke's approval by British cleric John Wynne (1665-1743). This abridgment was first published in London in 1696, proving popular and going through many more editions throughout the 18th century. Not until 1794 did the U.S. see its first edition. Front pastedown bears early bookplate (ca. 1800) of Rice Jones and below it a 1947 gift inscription to the convent whose inkstamp appears at bottom of title page. .
Keywords: Philosophy
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Title: An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Description: Boston, Manning & Loring, 1794. Hardcover. 16mo. Full calf with gilt spine rules and gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label. viii, 250pp. Good. Binding edgeworn and scuffed, with tiny chips at spine head and spine lettering rubbed; text block tight but moderately and irregularly age toned, with endpapers and preliminary leaves more so; front endpaper rough and a bit chipped at outer edge; contemporary ownership signature at head of title page and at bottom a small convent inkstamp. Decent copy of the first American edition of the best-known and groundbreaking 1690 work on grasping human knowledge by the Enlightenment thinker nicknamed the "father of liberalism" (1632-1704), as condensed with Locke's approval by British cleric John Wynne (1665-1743). This abridgment was first published in London in 1696, proving popular and going through many more editions throughout the 18th century. Not until 1794 did the U.S. see its first edition. Front pastedown bears early bookplate (ca. 1800) of Rice Jones and below it a 1947 gift inscription to the convent whose inkstamp appears at bottom of title page. .
Keywords: Philosophy
Price: US$ 300.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51002
- Book number: 51002
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