Locke, John

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and Sold by Edw. Mory, 1690
paper, ink, leather

Folio (12 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.; 318 x 184 mm). Title-page a cancel, title within double-ruled border, errata on a2v, contemporary marginalia in ink (some copious) and later pencil notes; title-page browned with cropped and frayed fore-edge, marginal foxing, browning and staining (occasionally pronounced, particularly in front and back) some text browning, short tear cuttting into bottom two text lines (2G2v), leaves 3B3–4 detached. Modern polished black calf antique, crimson lettering piece.

Provenance

W[iliam] Serocold (signature on title-page)

Literature

Wing L2739; ESTC R9934; Attig 228; Grolier, English 36; Grolier, One Hundred 72; Pforzheimer 600; PMM 164

Catalogue Note

First edition, (traditionally considered the second) issue, which has a cancel title without Holt's name in the imprint and with the inverted "SS" of "Essay" and a redistribution of the ornaments on the title-page. See previous lot for discussion of non-priority of issue.