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Price: US$374.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full contemporary calf hardback with original gilt lettered title-piece to spine, neatly rebacked (preserving pastedowns). Rubbed and worn, nonetheless showing well, firm and square, no splits, strong joints. Contents tight and clean, no pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 8vo (180mm x 112mm). Collation: pp. [viii], 292, 4 [ads]. Thus a scarce book in very good condition. Bibliographic references: ESTC T109720; Yolton 304. Attig 730.
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: pp. [8], 292, 4. 8vo. Nice original full leather binding with professionally re-backed spine, and repairs to corners. Our copy contains the List of Subscribers, the two pages of advertising at the end, and is printed on water-marked paper with the chain lines clearly showing. The signature of 'Caroline Fox 1789' appears across the top edge of the title page and there is a nice little bookplate on the front pastedown, with the words 'Holland House' printed thereon (and over which some miscreant has scribbled a few letters in red pencil). It is possible that the signature is that of a descendent of the famous Georgianna Caroline Fox, first Baroness of Holland House, (although she died in 1774), and that the bookplate indicates this book is from the library of the famous castle, built in 1605, in Kensington, London. In the Abstract, a few passages have been lightly marked in the margins, or by underlining, in what appears to be an early pen. Yolton 304. Contents clean and tight. A straight-up copy in good condition. Locke (1632-1704) first published 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' in 1690, as a folio in four books, with a second edition, containing large additions and an index, in 1694, and a third edition in 1695 (see Lowndes, part V). It has been translated into many languages, and reprinted many times. 'The Conduct of the Understanding' has never achieved quite the same popularity, and exists in fewer editions. The first edition, according to WorldCat and the British Museum catalogue, was in 1762, followed by Glasgow editions a year or two later. It is often combined with other works of Locke, although it appears that this is the only edition to be published with an abstract of 'Essay on [sic] Human Understanding'.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Of the Conduct of the Understanding first appeared in 1706 as part of Posthumous Works. Lord Gilbert's influential abridgment first appeared in 1709. The Conduct is one of the most important of Locke's posthumous publications. It was designed for young men who are educating themselves. "It can be read either as an extension of the Essay, indicating the practical implications of the doctrines there set forth, or it can be read as an addition to Locke's educational writings, extending and in some measure complementing the account of education given in Thoughts [on Education]. It can also be read for itself, as a practical manual on 'clear thinking,' a statement of the pitfalls that lie in the road to truth and the means by which the mind can be trained to avoid them" (Francis W. Garforth in his preface to the work, Classics in Education Series No. 31). Octavo. [viii], 292, 4 [ads] pp. With list of subscribers, mostly consisting of Cambridgenames. Later maroon half calf over marbled boards. Top edge marbled, other edges uncut. Spine a bit faded. A very good, large copy. Scarce. First edition thus; first issue, on good quality watermarked paper (a second issue was on larger,unwatermarked sheets). 'Of the Conduct of the Understanding' first appeared in 1706 as part of 'Posthumous Works.' Lord Gilbert's influential abridgment first appeared in 1709. Attig 730.Yolton 304.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.