The Passion of American Coll🦩ectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman

Locke, John

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: Printed for A[wnsham]. and J[ohn]. Churchill, 1693

8vo (1ꦚ75 x 114 mm). Title within double-ruled border, contents on S4. Contemporary Cambridge style speckled calf, edges speckled red, spine g🤪ilt in 6 compartments; spine ends chipped, joints rubbed and starting.

First edition, with "Patronage" on leaf A3v, line 19

A fine, bright copy internally. Begun as a series of letters to Locke's friend Edward Clarke, this work was immensely influential in its time, being published in at least fifty-three editions in the eighteenth century alone. The book is now considered to be one of the earliest expressions of the principles of modꦅern developmental psychology.

PROVENANCE

George Leo Hillnot (signature on title-page) —Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Knohl (bookplate to front patedown; their sale, Sotheby's New York♐, 23 October 2016, lot 190)

REFERENCE

ESTC R213714; Pforzheimer 612; Wing L2762