LOCKE, John.
Letters concerning Toleration. London, A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington [and sixteen others], 1765.
Large 4to, pp. [viii], 399, [1], with a frontispiece portrait of Locke by Cipriani; frontispiece rather foxed, scattered foxing throughout, withal a good copy in contemporary mottled sheep, joints cracked, head- and tailcaps chipped, corners bumped; armorial bookplate of Sir Paul Christopher Davie (1901–1990), Remembrancer of the City of London.
First collection edition, edited and with a preface by Thomas Hollis, printing Locke’s Epistola de Tolerantia (1689), its English translation by Popple, the Second and Third Letter that Locke wrote in response to the animadversions of Jonas Proast, and the unfinished Fourth Letter, first published in the Posthumous Works of 1706. Hollis’s liberty cap appears below the portrait and at the foot of the final page.
ESTC T114245; Attig 93; Yalton 28.