University of Glasgow, afterwards Bishop of Sarum.
Glasgow: printed by
Robert Foulis, and sold by him there; and, at
Edinburgh, by Mess.
Hamilton and Balfour booksellers,
m dcc xliii
. [1743.]
HX811 .1516 E743
Sm. 8vo. 82 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by S. Taylor after Holbein; advertisement on the last page.
Lowndes III, 1607.
Hazlitt II, 268.
Rebound in half bound morocco. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Gilbert Burnet,
Bishop of Salisbury, first published his translation in 1684. The first English edition, translated by Raphe Robynson, was published in London
in 1551.
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Political classics. viz. Sidney, Rousseau & More.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 92, as above.
Political Classics, Vol. I. Life, memoirs, &c. of Algernon Sydney. [Vol. II. Discourses on government. By Algernon Sydney. With his Letters, &c. Vol. III. A Treatise on the social compact. Or, the principles of political law. By J. J. Rousseau . . . Utopia . . . written in
Latin by Sir Thomas More . . . Translated into
English by Gilbert Burnet . . . Appendix. Letters of Algernon Sydney.]
London: printed for
D. I. Eaton,
1794-5.
JA36 .P7
First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 288 leaves; vol. II, 304 leaves; vol. III, 3 parts in 1, separate signatures and pagination,
2 title-pages: 112, 87, 104 leaves; title for Utopia on A
1 of the second alphabet, caption title for the Appendix.
Old calf, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Not initialled by Jefferson.
These three volumes are principally concerned with the life and works of Algernon Sidney.
Volume I contains his
Life and Memoirs, the
Trial, the
Apology and the beginning of the
Discourses on Government; volume II contains the remainder of the
Discourses on Government; volume III has an Appendix which contains the
Letters of Algernon Sidney. This volume also contains
A Treatise on the Social Compact. Or, the Principles of Political Law, and
A Project for a Perpetual Peace, by J. J. Rousseau, and Sir Thomas More’s
Utopia.
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Essay on gov
(
~m
)t by mrs Lee.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 100, Essay on Government, by Mrs. Lee, 8vo.
LEE,
Rachel Fanny Antonina.
An Essay on government. By Mrs. R. F. A. Lee.
London: printed for the author, by
T. Gillet, and sold by
John Joseph Stockdale,
1809.
JC223 .L482
First Edition. 8vo. 192 leaves, the last a blank; printer’s imprint at the end.
Not in Lowndes.
Watt II, 595r.
Old calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from the author, sent through Thomas Gillet and General William Pinkney. Gillet wrote to Jefferson from
London, April 12, 1809: “As every addition to the Literature of Europe by which America may be ultimately benefited, especially where the amelioration
of the condition of mankind is the object, cannot be a subject of indifference to a Legislator of your enlarged views and
liberal understanding: I am desired by the Author of “An Essay on Government” to request your acceptance of two Copies of
her work, just published in England.
"To you who followed the immortal Washington in the administration of the Government of the most free and happy nation in
the universe, and, like him, retired into private life with the approbation of your fellow citizens, a work calculated ”
