An essay concerning humane understanding : in four books.

Accession number: 
PML 136438
Author: 
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Published: 
London : Printed for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory at the Sign of the Three Bibles in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1690.
Description: 
[12], 362, [22] p. ; 33 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Dedication signed: John Locke.
First ed., 2nd issue, with Basset and Mory imprint on cancelled title-page.
Printed by Elizabeth Holt who appears on the t.p. of the first issue.
Errors in pagination: 85, 287, 296 and 303 numbered 83, 269, 294 and 230 respectively.
Final line of p. 55 incudes the reading: "in our Underwandings" [sic].

Binding: 
Contemporary calf; in red 1/5 moroco slipcase.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

"James Best Feb. 3 1794" written in pen on t.p.

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Head Pottinger Best; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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