LOCKE, John

Essay Concerning Human Understanding

LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding... London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1828. Three volumes. Octavo, full contemporary polished mottled calf, red and black leather labels, gilt-ruled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. $985. Handsomely bound 1828 edition of Locke's famous treatise on Human Understanding, "the first modern attempt to analyse human knowledge." With a Life of the Author and detailed Tables of Contents and Indexes. "Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe. When Locke came eventually to consider the question of real existence and the reality of human knowledge he accepted the implications of Representative Perception and admitted that a man cannot penetrate beyond his own ideas to the real world, which is never itself present in the mind... Locke's design... covers a remarkably wide field of investigation into human knowledge; it is the first modern attempt to analyse it." PMM 164. Volume I with bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, newspaper clipping of Locke on front free endpaper and newspaper article on Locke laid-in on early flyleaf. Occasional light foxing. A handsome set of Locke's most famous and influential work.

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