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HUME (DAVID) An Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals, FIRST EDITION, A. Millar, 1751
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HUME (DAVID)
An Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals, FIRST EDITION, with L3 a cancel, half-title, errata, 3 pages of advertisements, several neat pencil annotations, contemporary calf, rubbed with some loss to extremities of spine [Rothschild 11745], 8vo, A. Millar, 1751
Footnotes
Hume wrote of the Enquiry "of all my writings... incomparably the best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world" (Autobiography, 1777, p.16).
Provenance
Joseph Mendham, Clophill (1769‐1856), Church of England priest and controversialist, presentation label dated 1872 from Mrs. Mendham to R.E. Hooppell (1833-1895), antiquary and Church of England clergyman.
