Leviathan, or, the matter, form, and power of a common-wealth ecclesiastical and civil. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

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• Leviathan, or, the matter, form, and power of a common-wealth ecclesiastical and civil. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
• Leviathan; Matter, form, and power of a common-wealth ecclesiastical and civil

People / Organizations

• Thomas Hobbes (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651 [i.e. ca. 1700]

Publication year

1700

ESTC No.

R13935

Grub Street ID

61996

Description

[6], 250, 249-256, 261-394 [i.e. 396] p., [2] leaves of plates : fold. table ; 2°.

Note

A piracy with false imprint. Attributed to John Darby ca. 1700--cf. "Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan", ed. Noel Malcolm, vol. 1, p. 258-271. For typographic evidence that the edition was printed by John Richardson in 1695, see "Eighteenth-Century Studies", summer 2021, p. 827-59

With an added engraved title page (plate)

With a folding table between p. 2 and 3

In this edition, the letterpress title-page decoration is an upside-down trapezoid of 25 ornaments grouped in 5 rows

Text is continuous despite pagination.