From Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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Small 8vo., pp. [6], 178; a splash of mud to p. 25, but a very good, crisp copy in contemporary speckled sheep, spine worn at head, handwritten paper spine label.Second edition of seven essays of 'considerable merit [that] display the easy scepticism and solid good sense and learning of the author to good advantage' (Pforzheimer). They deal with self-interest; the mischief of learning; education; respect for antiquity; the virtues of modern men; passion; and the uncertainty of human knowledge, all 'writ … in my idle hours, for my own entertainment' (Preface). A 'freedom from conventionality, and [an] air of comfortable cynicism… pervades them, a cynicism recognising the enormous prevalence of stupidity and falseness of all kinds, but also possessing a cheerful conviction of the possibilities of amendment' (DNB). This is a paginary reprint, to p. 159, of the first edition (1691), where 'by compressing the Latin quotations, the text is typographically shortened by half a page' (Pforzheimer).Wing B 3349; Pforzheimer 70. Language: English. Seller Inventory # E2157
Bibliographic Details
Title: Essays on several Subjects…
Publisher: London, Printed for Richard Bently… 1692.
Publication Date: 1692
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