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DESCARTES, Ren (1596-1650). A Discourse of a Method for the well guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences. London: Thomas Newcombe, 1644.
8o (144 x 92 mm). Collation: A-I8. 72 leaves, paginated. Contemporary English blind-ruled speckled sheep (minor wear to extremities). Provenance: JOHN DRINKWATER (1882-1937), English playwright and poet (signature on blank leaf A2, dated 1920, and his lengthy pencil inscription discussing a variant imprint in the British Musuem and the rarity of this edition below: "...Neither Quartitch nor Chatto have seen another copy").
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This copy with integral title-page (A4) and shorter imprint which reads: "Printed by Thomas Newcombe" and date. A variant imprint exists with "for John Holden" added to the imprint (see Wing D-1129). Drinkwater's note mentions the BM copy has a cancel title-page and the longer imprint. Wing D-1129A (locating 5 copies, one in the U.K.); Norman 624.
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VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This copy with integral title-page (A4) and shorter imprint which reads: "Printed by Thomas Newcombe" and date. A variant imprint exists with "for John Holden" added to the imprint (see Wing D-1129). Drinkwater's note mentions the BM copy has a cancel title-page and the longer imprint. Wing D-1129A (locating 5 copies, one in the U.K.); Norman 624.