LOCKE, John: AN ABRIDGEMENT OF MR. LOCKE'S ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

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LOCKE, John : AN ABRIDGEMENT OF MR. LOCKE'S ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

LOCKE, John, (ed. John WYNNE). AN ABRIDGEMENT OF MR. LOCKE'S ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, J. West, and the Proprietor of the Boston Bookstore, 1794. First American edition. 250 pp., A6 - W6 (last page blank). 12mo., brown calf with gilt spine rules and gilt red morocco spine label. Joints cracked, spine shallowly chipped at heel and crown, corners and edges worn. Label gilt lettering slightly rubbed. Light to moderate occasional foxing. Offset tanning to title page. Ink ownership dated "June '97" to blank recto preceding title page. Overopened at title page; contents page through p. 10 partially detached. The last four blank pages are dampstained. The only 18th century edition published in America; the full text was not published in America until 1803. Benjamin Franklin called it 'the best Book of Logick in the World" [LCP First American Editions Exhibit (1984)]. Evans 21227. Quite scarce.

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