Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Oceana of James Harrington, and his other works : som [sic] wherof are now first publish'd from his own manuscripts / the whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an exact account of his life prefiz'd, by John Toland.
Call Number
Oversize Lapidus 5.2285q
HX811.1656 H28q
Oversize 2005-0611Q
Oversize HX811.1656.H28q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5t34sv98m
Publisher
London, Printed [by J. Darby] and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1700.
Language
English
Date Created
1700
Extent
[4], xliv, 546, [2] p. : ill., port. ; 32 cm. (2⁰).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Bookplate of Sidney Broad.
Source Acquisition
Ex copy 2 (2005-0611Q) Gift; The beneficiaries of the estate of Elizabeth C. Dilworth; 2005.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC R9111
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
Toland's dedication
The preface
The life of James Harrington
The grounds and reasons of monarchy consider'd
The commonwealth of Oceana
The prerogative of popular government
The art of lawgiving
Six political tracts written on several occasions.
Notes
Title in red and black.
First published in 1656 under title: The commonwealth of Oceana.
Advertisement, one leaf at end.
Frontispiece (leaf pi1) and portrait of Harrington (leaf a2) are signed by M. Vander Gucht. The folded plate facing p. 133, on the manner and use of the ballot, is unsigned.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 on back pastedown: binder Sidney Broad's note about restoration of this copy, dated Dec. 1980.

Discovery Information

Subject
Utopias—Early works to 1800
Political science—Early works to 1800
Harrington, James 1611-1677

Physical Characteristics

File Count
611

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/de9b4235-f6f7-46fd-83d2-207bdbbb9340/manifest