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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Leviathan, or, the Matter, Form, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil. The Head Edition.

London: Printed [by Thomas Warren and Richard Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1651.
First edition, folio, with woodcut vignette featuring a head above the imprint; engraved allegorical frontispiece bound before the typographical title; this state with "THE" in italics at the top of A4 recto and no "B" signature mark at the foot; lacking the folding typographical table; bound in contemporary boards, both detached; toning and wear to contents; some mottled discoloration to some leaves; some marginal worming; 11 x 7 in.

Wing H-2246; MacDonald & Hargreaves 42; Pforzheimer 491; ESTC R17253.

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