1714 The Works of John Locke

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding

The first edition of the collected works of John Locke.

Present here are volumes I and III only of this scarce first edition. Lacking volume II.

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. 

ESTC T128627

Volume I with the collation: A2, [a2], a-g2, B-4G4, 4H2. Volume I lacks the engraved frontispiece and engraved funerary epitaph, but the text leaves are complete.

Volume I also lacks '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. These two works, which should each retain an individual title page and have separate paginations and registers, consist of twenty-nine leaves.

Volume III with the collation: A2, [1], B-R2, S-5A4, 5B-5D2, 5E. Volume III lacks the final index leaf, being leaf 5E2.

With the United College, Bradford, library label to each front pastedown.

With an advertisement leaf to volume I following the title page, as called for.

Sam. Manship's name does not appear in the imprint of volume III, as called for.

Two volumes of the scarce first edition 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.