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HOBBES (THOMAS) Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiatical and Civill, Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus, 1678] image 1
HOBBES (THOMAS) Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiatical and Civill, Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus, 1678] image 2
HOBBES (THOMAS) Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiatical and Civill, Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus, 1678] image 3
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HOBBES (THOMAS)
Leviathan, Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus, 1678]

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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HOBBES (THOMAS)

Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiatical and Civill, [second edition], additional engraved allegorical title, printed title with woodcut device of bear and foliage, folding letterpress table, early ink correction of a few words on p.79 and a few letters neatly inked over on 3 or 4 further pages, old ink stain affecting a few letters on p.67, thin traces of worming at gutter margin towards end, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining early morocco label, worn [ESTC R13936; cf. Pforzheimer 491; c.f. PMM 138], folio (290 x 193mm.), Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus, 1678]

Footnotes

The second edition of Hobbes' "major treatise on psychology, politics, and religion... [for which] Hobbes appears to have been genuinely afraid that he might be prosecuted for heresy" (ODNB). First published in 1651 it was banned by the censors, thus appearing in this second pirated edition under a false imprint.

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