Books and Manuscripts

[Locke, John]
The Works of John Locke Esq…
London: Printed for John Churchill, and Sam. Manship, 1714. In three volumes. First collected edition. Folio. (viii), xxviii, 575, (17); (ii), 671, (16); (vi), 668, (15) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by Geo. Vertue after G. Kneller, an engraved funerary inscription, and numerous woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Full contemporary brown calf, orange morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid down, boards and extremities rubbed and dry, joints rubbed and dry, scattered small chipping to spines; marbled edges and endpapers; armorial book-plate of Charles William Bigge, Linden, on front paste-down of each volume; scattered very light spotting to text; top corner of p. 397/398 repaired in first volume. 

Scarce first collected edition of the works of John Locke, including his seminal texts such as an Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, and his Letters Concerning Toleration. The basis for several subsequent editions into the 19th century.