London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1631. About the 25th edition, and the last 17th century edition. Wing B-547; NCBEL I, 1083. A very popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin, "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically.....

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. First edition. ESTC T130218; NCBEL II, 554; Lowndes, page 1197. ¶ A collection of eight essays by the accomplished poet, essayist and wit, Soame Jenyns (1704-1787), who here writes about, among other things, universal being, cruelty to animals, civil liberty and religious establishments. "This.....

London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley, 1807. First edition. Keynes 3; NCBEL III, 1231. ¶ William Hazlitt's third book, an abridgment of the magnum opus of 18th century English philosopher Abraham Tucker (1705-1774), The Life of Nature Pursued, originally published over ten years (1768-78) in seven volumes. ¶.....

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. First edition. NCBEL III, 1610. Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions, a novel written in the form of the diary of Charles Thorndale, is one of the great 19th century fictional works of ideas and philosophical and religious opinions; and it remains.....