(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Johnson, Samuel.] An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy . . . By a Gentleman educated at Yale-College.

(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Johnson, Samuel.] An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy . . . By a Gentleman educated at Yale-College. [1], [1], 31 pages. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers, restitched at an early date; some foxing and soiling to the half-title and terminal leaf, else in very nice shape; early owner's signature and warning not to steal the book. New London: T. Green, 1743

first american edition. Johnson (1696-1772), a minister of the Church of England and the first President of King's College, "ranks with Jonathan Edwards as one of the two most important exponents of idealistic philosophy in colonial America"--DAB. His Introduction, first published in London in 1731, is one of the earliest American pedagogical works on the subject, preceding his more well-known Elementa Philosophica. Pages 27-31 list a "Catalogue of some of the most valuable Authors, on each part of Philosophy, proper to be read by the Student" and is attributed to Thomas Clap. Evans 5220; Brinley Sale 8224; Sabin 34951 (and 34950 incorrectly describing the 1731 edition as having been published in New London).
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