Locke's Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles; and Le Clerc on Inspiration.
first edition Original boards, uncut, rebacked with modern board, paper spine label with author's name in manuscript.
1820 · Boston:
by Locke, [ John ]
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1820 First edition thus. This essay was first published as an appendix to the posthumous Locke publication, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul...(1707). The Paraphrase went into seven editions before 1800 and was translated into German. This seems to be the first separate edition of this essay. Original boards, uncut, rebacked with modern board, paper spine label with author's name in manuscript. . Twelvemo. Occasional light foxing, as usual. Contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. A good copy. (Inventory #: 14372)