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LOCKE (JOHN)
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, FIRST EDITION, A. and J. Churchill, 1693

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[LOCKE (JOHN)]

Some Thoughts Concerning Education, FIRST EDITION, variant with "Patronage" spelling on leaf A3v, CUT SIGNATURE ("John Locke") tipped onto front free endpaper above pencil note "From Edmund Gosse's Collection of autographs", light dampstain to upper third of text throughout, early twentieth century calf gilt, spine elaborately tooled with red morocco lettering labels, g.e., slight abrasions on upper cover [ESTC R213714; Pforzheimer 612; Wing L2762], 8vo, A. and J. Churchill, 1693

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WITH A CUT SIGNATURE OF JOHN LOCKE. "Of all Locke's works, Some Thoughts is perhaps the one that reveals most about its author" (ODNB), and in which he laid the "seeds of modern developmental psychology" (Norman). Enormously influential it was reprinted over fifty times in the eighteenth century.

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