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Verlag: Thoemmes Continuum, 1991
ISBN 10: 1855060787ISBN 13: 9781855060784
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket.
Verlag: Thoemmes Continuum, 1991
ISBN 10: 1855060787ISBN 13: 9781855060784
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. (+ HB2423).
Verlag: Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 1855060787ISBN 13: 9781855060784
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Letters on Hume's History of Great Britain. Edinburgh: Sands, et al. 1756. [Facsimile reprint by Thoemmes Press, with a new Introduction to the reprint by J.V. Price, 1990]. Book.
Verlag: Edinburgh, 1756
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Half-leather over marbled paper boards with a gilt lettered label to spine. In better than very good shape: firm and square, strong joints, sharp corners. Contents clean and tidy. The front blank leaf shows a very neat lengthy note written in contemporary hand. Also an old name neatly showing at the half title. No other pen-marks or inscriptions, just evenly age toned. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 214mm x 133mm; collation: pp. [4], 328. Favourably reviewed by William Rose in the Monthly Review and by Tobias Smollett in the Critical Review, MacQueen's Letters seem to have made Hume expunge some of the most offensive passages from later editions of his History. Thus a well bound book in pleasing condition. Bibliographic references: Chuo III 156; Jessop pp. 49-50; ESTC T81959.
Verlag: Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Donaldson, Murray, and Cochran. For A. Kincaid and A Donaldson, 1756, 1756
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition of "by far the most thorough and detailed attack" (Slater, p. 141) on the first volume of David Hume's History of England (1754-1762). MacQueen's work is one of the earliest commentaries on the History published in Hume's lifetime. While the History brought Hume popular renown, his sympathetic treatment of the Stuart monarchs, and his cavalier treatment of England's religious institutions, caused considerable controversy in the Whig-dominated culture of the 1750s. The anonymous response of Daniel MacQueen, an elderly minister at Edinburgh's Old Kirk, was published two years after Hume's first volume, which covered the reigns of James I and Charles I. Accordingly, MacQueen attacks both Hume's irreligiousness and his apparent acceptance of untrammelled authoritarianism in British politics. Recognizing the strength of MacQueen's attack on "the author's indecent excursions on the subject of religion, the genius of the Protestant faith, and the characters of the first reformers" (p. 4), Hume made several conciliatory revisions in subsequent editions of the History. Jessop, pp. 49-50. Graeme Slater, "Hume's Revisions of the 'History of England'", Studies in Bibliography, vol. 45, no. 1, 1992. Octavo (200 x 123 mm). Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco label to second, covers with double-rule panels in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Light bumping and moderate wear, joints cracked but holding firm, minor foxing and browning to endpapers and outer leaves: a good copy.