Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill. / By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.
Call Number
RHT 17th-736
7510.465.2
EX Lapidus 1.01
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xp68kg95v
Publisher
London, : Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651.
Language
English
Date Created
1651
Extent
[6], 396 [i.e. 394] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 RHT copy: The Chesterfield copy: signed in italic on free endpaper 'Phillip Chesterfield E Chesterfield.'
Princeton copy 1 RHT copy: Armorial bookplate 'Bradby Hall.' [Franks 27863] [seat of Stanhope, Earls of Chesterfield].
Princeton copy 1 RHT copy: The A.S.W. Rosenbach copy, with his descriptive card laid in.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 3 EXOV copy: Presented by Rev. Bernardus H. Vos.
Princeton copy 2 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
ESTC R17253
Macdonald & Hargreaves. Hobbes, 42
Wing H2246
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With an added engraved title page.
Page numbers 247-248 repeated, and 257-260 omitted.
There are at least two states of this edition known to exist. One state has leaf 3A3 signed 2A3; the other state is signed correctly.
"Head" ornament on t.p.; head-piece; initials.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 RHT copy: Bound in full calf, stamped in gilt with arms of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1633-1713), on covers; parchment mss. waste guards.
Princeton copy 2 Lapidus copy: Bound in contemporary full calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Political science—Early works to 1800
State, The—Early works to 1800
Armorial bindings
Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
412

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ef4daba2-f7b7-4d4e-b13e-3f570305403e/manifest