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Two volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. [ii], iv, [xxvi], 372; [xvi, 340, [27] index; a good, clean copy in contemporary panelled calf, spines a bit worn, head of volume I's spine chipped. Eighth edition, a reprint (despite the statement on the title page) of the seventh, and following the text of the fifth (1706). Yolton 68; Attig 235. Provenance. Early inscription on endpaper of volume I of Robert Cathcart, dated 1738 - possibly Robert Cathcart of Glandusk, co. Ayr, Scotland.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1690.