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SIDNEY, ALGERNON. Discourses concerning Government. [4], 3-462, [6] pages. Folio, 314x187 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, quite worn, front cover detached; light dampstaining in upper and lower margins throughout, foxing on preliminaries and last 2 leaves of table at end, ink stain in gutter of pages 199-201, 2L2.3 heavily browned. Contemporary signature of Arundell Wastfeild on front flyleaf. London: Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698
first edition. "Polemically a refutation of Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha (1680), the practical purpose of the Discourses is . . . to argue for armed resistance to oppression" (ODNB). Wing S3761; ESTC R11837.
