Berkeley (George). Works... To which is added an account of his life and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais and Mr Pope, 2 volumes, 1st London edition, G. Robinson, and John Exshaw, Dublin.1784, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved plate, folding engraved plan, woodcut illustrations, some offsetting and occasional light spotting and small marginal water stains, contemporary tree calf, spines with red and black labels, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2) Provenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth Keynes 143. The first London edition, issued in the same year as the Dublin first edition with cancel title adding Robinson to the imprint. Considered the philosopher supreme of the Romantics, Berkeley advanced his theory of immaterialism and critique of abstraction, and the city of Berkeley in California is named after him.
Berkeley (George). Works... To which is added an account of his life and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais and Mr Pope, 2 volumes, 1st London edition, G. Robinson, and John Exshaw, Dublin.1784, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved plate, folding engraved plan, woodcut illustrations, some offsetting and occasional light spotting and small marginal water stains, contemporary tree calf, spines with red and black labels, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2) Provenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth Keynes 143. The first London edition, issued in the same year as the Dublin first edition with cancel title adding Robinson to the imprint. Considered the philosopher supreme of the Romantics, Berkeley advanced his theory of immaterialism and critique of abstraction, and the city of Berkeley in California is named after him.
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