[Locke (John)] Two Treatises of Government: in the Former, False Principles and Foundations of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown, third edition, ink names to title, errata corrected in text in a contemporary ink hand, lacking final blank, X3 piece from lower corner, affecting catchword and minor part of 3 letters of text, closely trimmed at head, occasionally affecting pagination, foxed, some staining or browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and with red leather label, [Goldsmiths' 3546; Pforzheimer 613; Wing L2768], 8vo, Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, 1698.

⁂ 'The importance of this book in the history of English political thought is sometimes ignored... The constructive doctrines which are elaborated in the second treatise became the basis of social and political philosophy for many generations' (Pforzheimer).

Provenance: James Ross (later ink signature to title).