Of The Conduct Of The Understanding..
Presentation binding in brown morocco, gilt. Boards, blind stamped panels with gilt decoration in corners. Spine divided into compartments by raised bands and decorated gilt. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Very slight wear to extremities. Insert: Letter from publisher to editor, 186 Fleet Street, dated May 23rd 1859. Occasional traces of spotting but otherwise fine clean interior and generally a very handsome presentation copy.
Details
HANDSOME PRESENTATION COPY, 1859
Publisher
Bell and Daldy, Fleet Street, London [Colophon:] Chiswick Press: Printed by C.Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.,
Date
1859
Synopsis
Edited by bolton corney, m.r.s.l.
Item Description
8vo. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. x + 118 pp. + [2]. [A-A7], B-H8, I-I4.
Notes
John Locke (1632-1704) was an influential English philosopher, who published some of his most important works, such as his treatises of government and letters on toleration, in the period immediately before and after the English revolution of 1688-89. His political philosophy with its support for liberalism and advocacy of social contract theory, influenced the French philosophers and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and above all, the American revolutionaries. His theory of mind, maintaining that we are born without innate ideas and that knowledge is determined by experience, deriving from sense perception, was equally significant and may be regarded as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self. The Conduct was begun in 1697 and was originally intended as an addition to his famous Essay concerning Human Understand, as part of the Posthumous Works of Mr John Locke. ESTC records its publication in separate editions from 1741. Corney Bolton (1784-1870) was a literary critic and antiquary, born at St Lawrence, Thanet. Following his attempt to redate the Bayeux Tapestry, he became involved in various literary controversies in the period, 1840-60, clashing with Isaac D'Israeli and Antonio Panizzi. He wrote on Shakespeare and Caxton and edited Goldsmith and Sir Henry Middleton's Voyage of 1604 for the Hakluyt Society, which he helped to found. Locke's Conduct was one of his later projects. This particular volume appears to be the presentation copy that Daldy, the publisher, had especially bound for Corney as editor, for the inserted letter states that: 'One copy we shall put into the hands of a superior binder...with directions to bind it in his best style for your own Library.' This superior binder was apparently Holloway of London.
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