An Abridgement of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

by John Locke 

First American edition.  Boston:  Printed by Manning & Loring, 1794 

Hardback is overall in GOOD condition.

• Leatherbound covers with traces of gilt and remains of a label to the spine. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, aging, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine is darkened and crackled with chipped ends.  See photos. 
• Binding is secure, with tenderness at covers.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining at edges; ffeps are absent.
• Title page is darkened at edges.  See photos.  
• Interior is age-toned, exhibits light, text block shadowing, some smudges, a couple of corners turned in.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have some foxing. 
• PS2026.1112

250 pages. 4 x 6.5 inches

Boston:  Manning & Loring Printers for a collective of booksellers, 1794.  Contemporary full calf boards, with traces of gilt ruling and leather label on the spine.  Boards show age and wear, tenderness at shoulders, with spine crackled and darkened.  Front feps missing, with interior toned but unmarked and very readable.  Overall, a Good, original, copy of this important first American imprint.

The first American edition of the best-known and groundbreaking 1690 work on grasping human knowledge by the Enlightenment thinker John Locke (1632-1704), as condensed with Locke's approval by British cleric John Wynne (1665-1743).  This abridgment was first published in London in 1696, proving popular and going through many more editions through the 18th century before the first American edition in 1794. 

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