Leviathan, . or that matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3014149
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],248,247-256,261-396p.,plate . fol... Imperfect: wanting the engraved title page. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: E3-9 [brown ink, mid-eighteenth-century]; E18 [pencil, mid-eighteenth-century]; A/3 [pencil]; T.7.25 [black ink]. Manuscript note in a seventeenth-century hand on pp. 309, 335, 368-9 [cropped by binding]. Provenance: Manuscript on title page verso in an eighteenth-century hand: 2 Phi: Yorke Liber [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled, panelled, calf over boards, double blind fillet on spine, remains of gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges. Old water stains throughout.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)