Discourses on government / by Algernon Sidney ; published from an original manuscript of the author ; to which is added, an account of the author's life, and a copious index ; in three volumes ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sidney, Algernon, 1623-1683, author.

Contributor:

Lee, Richard, -1809, publisher.

Deare and Andrews, printer.

Peter Way Collection of Early Modern Texts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filmer, Robert, 1588?-1653. Patriarcha.

Filmer, Robert.

Political science.

Monarchy.

Republics.

Genre:

Leather bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

Way, Peter (former owner) (Way copy)

Frink and Fosdick (inscription) (Way copy)

Miner, Charles H. (autograph) (Way copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : portrait ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

[New York] : Deare and Andrews, printers.

Place of Publication:

New-York: Printed for Richard Lee, by Deare and Andrews, 1805.

Notes:

"This is an answer to Filmer's 'Patriarcha'." See Dictionary of national biography, volume 52, page 209.

Colophon at end of each volume.

Volume 1 has frontispiece plate (engraved portrait of the author).

Local Notes:

Forrest copy imperfect: library has volume 1 only.

Way copy: volume 1 has manuscript note ("$6.00") on verso of frontispiece plate

Way copy: each volume has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Frink & Fosdick Sept. 20th 1808"), struck through, on half-title leaf.

Way copy: volume 1 has dated 19th-century autograph ("Chas. H. Miner March 1869") on half-title leaf; volumes 2-3 each has dated 19th-century manuscript purchase inscription ("C.H. Meiner Bought March 1869") on half-title leaf.

Other Format:

Online version: Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683. Discourses on government.

OCLC:

2452142