1714-1722 The Works of John Locke

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding

The 1714 first edition of volumes I and III, and the 1722 second edition of volume II.

Complete in three volumes.

Volume I illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and engraved funerary epitaph. Collated, complete.

The collected works of English philosopher, physician and Enlightenment thinker John Locke, frequently referred to as the 'Father of Liberalism', and recognised as one of the first of the British empiricists.

Essays and writings on numerous subjects - including a discussion of interest, letters concerning toleration, and the reasonableness of Christianity - are included in these volumes, alongside his posthumous works and a number of personal letters.

With a lengthy index to the rear of each volume. 

Volumes I and III present in the 1714 first edition, ESTC T128627.

Volume I with the collation: A2, [a2], A-H2, I2, A-F2, a-g2, B-4G4, 4H2. Collated, complete.

Volume III with the collation: A2, [1], B-R2, S-5A4, 5B-5E2. Collated, complete.

Volume I includes 'An account of the life and writings of John Locke Esq; The third edition enlarged,' London: printed for J. Clarke, and E. Curll, 1714, and 'The remains of John Locke Esq; ... Publish'd from his original manuscripts,' London: printed for E. Curll, 1714, as called for.

Volume II present in the 1722 second edition. ESTC T128551

With the collation: [A4], B-4P4, 4Q-4S2. Collated, complete.

Former owner's inscriptions to volume II and III title pages.

Present here are first edition volumes of the works of one of the most important and enduring figures of Western philosophy.

Locke's philosophy of mind is viewed as the origin of modern conceptions of personal identity and the psychology of the self, influencing the work of later philosophers, such as Rousseau, Hume, and Kant.