Author: Geoffrey Keynes
Title: A Bibliography of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976. Cloth. A smart bibliography of George Berkeley compiled by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, illustrated with a folding frontispiece and complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne. He is mainly remembered for being a proponent for immaterialism - the concept that objects are ideas perceived by the mind. His philosophical works include 'An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision', 'A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge' and 'Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous&apos.Written by prolific bibliographer, Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a British author, surgeon and bibliophile. Through his marriage, his children were the great-grandchildren of Charles Darwin. He was a scholar of William Blake and William Harvey, and was passionate about the science of bibliography. He also produced biographies of the likes of John Evelyn, Jane Austen and Siegfried Sassoon, and an autobiography the year before his death. Keyne's personal library consisted of some four thousand works.Complete with a smart and unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and facsimile title pages throughout.A first edition of this bibliography. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of general wear. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition, with just a touch of general wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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