HARRINGTON JAMES The Oceana and Other Works

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HARRINGTON, JAMES. The Oceana and Other Works.<> Engraved frontispiece portrait (offsetting onto title); 2 engraved plates. [4], xl, 598, [18] pages, including ad leaf at end. 4to, 299x229 mm, contemporary russia, flat spine attractively gilt, joints cracked, cords intact. clean, wide-margined copy.<> London: T.Becket et al., 1771

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Fourth and best collected edition of the writings of the political philosopher Harrington (1611-77). "Harrington's utopian ideas . . . were intended for immediate and practical application to England . . . His utopias were characterized by stability, balance of classes, limitation of individual wealth, vote by ballot, rotation in office, a fusion of aristocratic and democratic principles, checks and balances, a written constitution, popular ratification of constitutional legislation, and separation of judicial, legislative, and executive functions. Harrington's influence was great upon subsequent utopias and American constitutions"--Gibson 704 note.<