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UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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Paperback. New.

Liberty Fund, 2001. Paperback. FINE. xxi, 224; 247; 323 pp. All volumes pristine in like slip case. Complete in three volumes.

London: John Darby, 1727. Hardcover. Fair(Front cover is missing; back cover is rubbed on edges and faded; some portions of back cover has cracked off at the edges; spine is partially detached from foot end of back cover; spine is faded; title on spine compartment has been rubbed away; pages have some damp staining and age toning; some markings and minor stains in the text throughout; front endpaper torn almost entirely from hinge; pages are clean and lightly age toned, as expected with age). Full leather; Spine with five raised bands; 364 pp.; bw illustrated frontispiece of the author; bw illustration on title page; bw illustrated divisional headpieces. THIS IS VOLUME 1. "Volume 1. A letter concerning enthusiasm -- Sensus communis : an essay on the freedom of wit and humour -- Soliloquy, or advice to an author" -- FirstSearch.

Liberty Fund, 2001. Hardcover. New. pck slp edition. 815 pages. 9.75x6.50x3.50 inches.

Liberty Fund, 2001-03-19. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Three volume set, fifth edition, first Baskerville edition. Printed 1773. Three quarter bound with marbled endpapers. Text is foxed and mottled with signs of water damage. Volume I: 376pp, front cover is completely detached; back cover is loose at hinge and part of spine missing (as shown). Volume II: 444pp, front and back covers completely detached and part of spine missing (as shown). Volume III: 416pp, front and back covers loose at hinge and part of spine missing (as shown). Price reflects condition of this set. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (O-D3)

Birmingham:: Printed by John Baskerville,, 1773.. The Fifth Edition (the first Baskerville edition).. rebound in modern cloth.. Old ownership signature and stamp on title page of Vol. I; text clean; sturdily rebound.. 8vo,. Engraved frontispiece portrait..

London: Printed by John Darby, 1727. Fourth Edition . Leather Bound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. 364; 443; 389, [54] pages, indexed in the third volume. Hardcovers bound in early full brown leather with raised bands on the spines. Simple gilt rules around the edges of the boards and on the spines, which have brown leather labels. "1727" gilt stamped at the foot of the spines, but the gilt there is rubbed. The bindings are rubbed and bumped but sound. A little heavier rubbing on the hinges, and the hinges are just starting at the headcaps on each volume. The leather has some old stains from handling. All edges speckled red. Unnamed armorial bookplates on the front pastedowns have a handwritten name of "Bosville." Bookplates show a shield topped by a bull and show three dog heads on the left and three cat heads on the right. The text of the books is clean. Full page frontis engraving in Volume I. All volumes have a half-page… Read More

London, 1727. Volume II [only of three] An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit. The Moralists; A Philosophical Rhapsody......443pp.Volume two only. [Orig. printed 1699] Fine title-page vignette by Gribelin. Contemporay full panelled calf binding. Worn joints and rear board detached but a complete book. Volume two only of the three volume set. No publisher but by Darby of London. 20cms.Armorial bookplate of T.M. Rankin 'Providentia et Virtue'.. 4th edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London (printer): no publisher but Vol.3 index printed by John Darby, 1732. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes. Recent half leather and marbled boards with gilt on black sp. labels with main title only and gilt volume numbers, virtually pristine, top edges vols 2 & 3 gilt, vol. 1 very darkened. Vol.1: f/piece engr. full length portrait by Closterman, engr. Gribeliin + set t.p. with circular central engraved cartouche by Gribeliin (apparently taken from another work as has 'Vol.III P. 198-199' at bottom which is simply text in Vol. 3 of this set), + (1, set contents) + iv inc. Volume 2: t.p. with large square central engr. panel and Preface with large heraldic eng. head-piece) + 364; like other vols. this has new end-papers, light tanning recto f/piece edges and central main t.p., otherwise clean, tight and unmarked; Vol.2: volume t.p. withengr. central panel + 443, , engr. head-piece top p.5; no obvious internal faults, no tanning but some dark spots to some of… Read More

London: Printed by John Darby, 1727. 4th edn. 3 vols. 8vo (8 x 5¼ ins). Contemporary full calf, gilt tooled raised-ribbed spines with contrasting labels, boards gilt ruled and gilt tooled at edges (spines rather worn at head and tails and boards scratched and marked; outer joints weakened). Pp. [vi] + iv + 364 + [4] blank [&] [ii] + 443 + [5] blank [&] [vi] + 391 + [1] blank + [54] index + [2] blank, illus with engraved portrait frontispiece in vol I and elaborately engraved titles and headpieces in all vols (previous owners' neat inscrpotions in contemporary hands on front prelims and armorial bookplates on front paste-downs).

1723. All volumes full leather with pannelled spine. Gilt decoration very worn. Leather also very worn especially at extremities. Spine ends worn away. All pages speckled red. Vol:1. 364 pages. Both gutters split. New endpapers. Damp stain to top margin of prelims and first few pages. Vol: 2. 443 pages. Both gutters loose. Front pastedown has bookplate of Charles Mandevile and part of his signature in black ink. Damp stain to lower corner of pages 11 to 24 and another affecting lower margins of pages 345 to end, including back endpapers. Vol: 3. 391 pages followed by Index to all three volumes. Both gutters loose. Front pastedown has bookplate of Charles Mandevile and his signature and `Trin:Col 1744` in black ink. Small damp stain to lower margins from page 367 to end, including back endpapers.. Third Edition. Leather. Good. Octavo.

1727. In Three Volumes; 3/4 leather & marbled paper over boards, raised bands, gilt spine title & decorations, endpapers/pastedown marbled, & all edges marbled; Curiously each title page has a 3.5"x3.25" section cut out in the lower half just above the publication date but neatly repaired & with a volume number and short contents slip installed on the repairs; Also, curiously, the nearly top half of the first text page has been excised & neatly repaired with the lost obverse text installed on the repair in an early hand; There is no frontis engraving & it appears one was never bound in; A good+ set with wear to the paper portion of the boards; 364, 443, 391 pages + Index. Size: 5.25"x8.5". Hardcover.

1714. Second edition. 3 volumes. Good condition with some general wear. 1714 to each title page. No publisher info.

np: 1727., 1727. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., iv, 364; 443; 2 p.l., 391, [54]index. engraved frontis. portrait by Simon Gribelin after J.Closterman. fine engraved title vignettes & headpieces by S.Gribelin. contemporary paneled calf, rebacked in morocco (corners worn, prelims misbound in Vol. I, pencil notes in Vol. I). engraved armorial bookplates of Robert Phillipps of Longworth. Fourth Edition. Containing all of Shaftesbury's principal writings, including his Inquiry Concerning Virtue, "unquestionably entitled to a place in the first rank of English tracts on moral philosophy." (J.Mackintosh) The phrase 'moral sense', which is used for the first time in this treatise became famous in the Scottish school of philosophy of which Hutcheson, a disciple of Shaftesbury's, was the founder. Shaftebury influenced in various ways all of the chief ethical writers of the eighteenth century, and had a great impact on the continental philosophers, notably Diderot and Leibniz. NCBEL II… Read More

London: John Darby, 1732 . Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The complete three volume fifth edition of Anthony Ashley-Cooper's philosophical essays. The work of English politician, philosopher and writer Anthony Ashley-Cooper.First published in 1711, the Oxford DNB states that this work conveys a 'notion of philosophy as a form of ethical training', and that it contributed to contemporary philosophical and social thinking.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to volume I, and with a small number of further head and tail pieces.His work examines ethics, religion and aesthetics, including essays titled 'An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour', 'Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit', and 'The Moralists'. ESTC reference number T144565The colophon to the rear of volume III provides the printer's name. In full calf bindings, with gilt detailing to back strips. Discolouration to back strips, with volume I lacking title label. Volume I rebacked, with joints still starting, but firmly… Read More

Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1773. Fifth edition (first Baskerville edition). Portrait frontispiece in volume I, engraved vignettes on titles and sectional title. [4], iv, 3-364; 443; [iv], 410, [48, index] pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary tree calf , neatly rebacked in gilt stamped calf. Nice set. Bookplates of Thomas Middlemore of Hawkseley and Frasier W. McCann. Fifth edition (first Baskerville edition). Portrait frontispiece in volume I, engraved vignettes on titles and sectional title. [4], iv, 3-364; 443; [iv], 410, [48, index] pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Gaskell 49