Essays on the Intellectual and Active Powers of Man. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2 volumes total)

Full leather. Very good. 8vo, brown calf, rebacked with matching calf, black labels, and gilt floral stamps in flat panels. Original boards?Äô leather is scuffed and worn, rubbed away along the extremities. Title pages are a bit brittle and chipped at extremities; text shows some age spotting and superficial staining, a few creases; text block edges show some evidence of handling; otherwise a clean, solid, and handsome set. 590, 604 pages. William Young was the first American printer of the Scottish Philosopher?Äôs essays, as well as the first to print the Active (1785) and Intellectual (1788) Powers together. 1194 pp.