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HUTCHESON, Francis (1694-1746). A System of Moral Philosophy. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis & London: A. Millar & T. Longman, 1755. 2 volumes in one, 4° (269 x 204mm). (First title lightly browned, part of outer margin of f1 in vol.I torn away, light spotting throughout, stronger in a few leaves.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (spine chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Richard Robinson, Lord Rokeby as Archbishop of Armagh (bookplate) - "He was Bishop of Killala 1751-1759. This copy is presumably that for which he subscribed as Bishop of Killala" (manuscript inscription below bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Hutcheson's longest and most ambitious work, one he refused to publish in his lifetime. It contains his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. Gaskell 297; Goldsmiths' 8995; Higgs 935: 'the lectures of Adam Smith show marked traces of the influence of Hutcheson'; Kress 5445.
FIRST EDITION of Hutcheson's longest and most ambitious work, one he refused to publish in his lifetime. It contains his most comprehensive account of human nature, the supreme good and greatest happiness, divine providence, natural rights, and civil government. Gaskell 297; Goldsmiths' 8995; Higgs 935: 'the lectures of Adam Smith show marked traces of the influence of Hutcheson'; Kress 5445.