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The Works of John Locke

London, Printed for Arthur Bettersworth and others. 1727

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The 1727 Third Folio Edition Of the Great English Philosopher’s Works. In Fine Condition Internally. Re-backed, Retaining Contemporary Cambridge Style Boards, With Very Clean, Amply Margined Leaves. Complete in All Respects With Frontispiece Portrait and Engraved Dedication

The volume(s) measure about 33 cm. by 22 cm. by 5-5.5 cm.

Each leaf measures about 315 mm. by 200 mm.

The full titles read as follows:

“The Works of John Locke Esq;/ In Three Volumes. / The Contents of which follow in the next leaf. / With Alphabetical Tables. / Vol. I. [II.] / The Third Edition. / / London, Printed for Arthur Bettersworth, at the Red Lion, in Pater-noster-Row; Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown, in Lombard-Street; John Pemberton, at the Buck, in Fleet-Street; and Edward Symon, against the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill. / M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]”

The Volumes are Complete in All Respects with Frontispiece Portrait and engraved dedication. The volumes are paginated as follows: Vol. I; [6], [iii]-xxviii, [1]-575, [1], [xvi]. Vol. II; [ii], [2]-671, [xiii]. Vo. III; [vi], [1]-668, [xvi]. The volumes collate as follows: Vol. I; A2, [a]1, a-g2, B-4F4. Vol. II; [X]1, A-4Q4, 4R2. Vol. III;[x]1, A-Q2, R-3Z4, 4A2, 4B-5C4.

The Volumes are in Fine Condition Internally Re-backed, retaining the Cambridge style contemporary boards, with new spines and labels, with the board edges gilt and the leaf edges red speckled. Externally the boards and spine are lightly scuffed in general, with the board corners bumped a bit, with the spine new and damage repaired. Internally the leaves are quite clean, with some small marginal tears, which appear to be paper flaws, and no toning or foxing whatsoever and some very faint staining in the upper margins. Please Take the Time Necessary to Review The Photographs on our website In Order To Gain The Fullest Possible Understanding Of The Content And Condition Of This Volume.

Of John Locke

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “Father of Liberalism”. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.

Locke’s theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as David Hume, Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception. This is now known as empiricism. An example of Locke’s belief in empiricism can be seen in his quote, “whatever I write, as soon as I discover it not to be true, my hand shall be the forwardest to throw it into the fire.” This shows the ideology of science in his observations in that something must be capable of being tested repeatedly and that nothing is exempt from being disproven. Challenging the work of others, Locke is said to have established the method of introspection, or observing the emotions and behaviours of one’s self.

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