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First edition of the collected works, including all the works which Locke claimed as his during his lifetime, as well as those he only admitted to in his will, formally putting his name to important works which he had published anonymously. "Locke's works were first published in a collected edition in 1714, and were reprinted at regular intervals until the 'twelfth' (actually thirteenth) edition of 1824... Locke's philosophy was immensely influential in the eighteenth century, not least in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where it soon replaced the scholastic doctrines in which Locke had been educated" (ODNB). Until 1768 all subsequent editions were merely reprints of this edition. Three volumes, folio (310 x 196 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered to style, red morocco labels to spines. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, engraved plate of Locke's epitaph facing frontispiece. Early jottings to front free endpaper of vol. I, occasional recent pencil marginalia to contents. Abrasion to covers, some staining to contents (more pronounced to early leaves in vol. II), rear binder's blank of vol. II adhered to terminal blank page with some stripping. A very good copy. Attig 848; ESTC T128627; PMM 164; Yolton 363.