Discourses concerning government, by Algernon Sidney. With his letter, trial, apology, and some memoirs of his life.

Accession number: 
PML 5002
Author: 
Sidney, Algernon, 1623-1683.
Published: 
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1763.
Description: 
2 p. l., [1], 46, [6], 497, 198 p. front. (port.) 30 cm.
Notes: 

"This is an answer to Filmer's 'Patriarcha'."--Dict. of nat. biog., v. 52, p. 209.
Frontispiece engraved by J. Basire after G.B. Cipriani, and dated 1763.
Autograph note on front fly-leaf reads: "A present from the Editor T. Hollis."

Binding: 
Red morocco, with stamps on sides and back.
Provenance: 
Edited by Thomas Hollis, for whom this copy was bound and stamped in gilt with "republican" emblems. Stamps also appear on front and back fly-leaves. With armorial bookplate of Horace Walpole on t.p. and plate of James Toovey.
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