LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. Engraved frontispiece portrait. [40], 407, [12] pages. Folio, 314x203 mm, modern panelled calf in period style; contents generally clean apart from dark stains along edges of preliminaries and last several leaves, light soiling on portrait and title, and minor worming in blank outer margins in middle of volume. London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1694
Second edition, enlarged; second issue, with Churchill/Manship imprint. "One of the great books in the history of ideas, this is the foundation text for empirical psychology and the beginning of British empiricism"--Rieber & Gach 267. Wing L2740; Yolton 62B (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4967; Printing and the Mind of Man 164 (all citing the 1690 original edition).
