The Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss'd.
London: Printed for James Knapton, 1710.
Price:
$450.00
First edition. [2], xiv, 200, 204, 11, [1]pp. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf, head of spine chipped. Bookplate on the front pastedown.
Item #372056
First edition of an important work of Whig political thought. "Standing with Trenchard and Gordon as early eighteenth-century 'preceptors of civil liberty' was the liberal Anglican bishop, Benjamin Hoadly ... in the colonies he was widely held to be one of the notable figures in the history of political thought" (Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, p. 37).
Item #372056
First edition of an important work of Whig political thought. "Standing with Trenchard and Gordon as early eighteenth-century 'preceptors of civil liberty' was the liberal Anglican bishop, Benjamin Hoadly ... in the colonies he was widely held to be one of the notable figures in the history of political thought" (Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, p. 37).
