An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. Written By John Locke, Gent. The Fifth Edition, with Large Additions.

John Locke

Published by Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-row; and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, Near the Royal Exchange, 1706

About this Item

Stained and scuffed original leather boards with impressed decoration; four front corners, heavily rubbed, professionally restored and reinforced; the leather spine, a later rebind, with six raised bands and scarlet label lettered in gilt. Internally original grubby endpapers with reinforcing tape down the gutters; free endpapers have tatty edges and name and date on the front one; lightly soiled title page with 5 mm tear on lower edge and two small brown spots near base; water damage to lower corner hard to discern on page 496 but by page 575 slight wrinkling and staining evident; significantly so thereafter, up to, and including, the index. Pp (1 title page), (4 dedication), (7 Epistle) (21 Contents) + 604 (7 Index) (1 Errata). Note: no frontis.should one be called for (?). Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. Written By John Locke, Gent. The Fifth Edition, with Large Additions.
• Publisher: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-row; and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, Near the Royal Exchange
• Publication Date: 1706
• Binding: Full-Leather
• Edition: Fifth.
• Condition: Good