THE
OCEANA
OF
James Harrington

AND
HIS OTHER WORKS
Som whereof are now first publish'd from his own
MANUSCRIPT

The whole Collected, Methodiz'd and Review'd
WITH
An Exact Account of his LIFE
Prefix'd
By JOHN TOLAND


LONDON
Printed and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London
and Westminster
M.DCC. (1700)

Rebacked with leather spine and earlier paper covered boards. Measuring approx. 30.6cm x 20.2cm x 5.3cm. Chipped remains of original spine laid down. The front board is cracked to lower two compartments of spine. The spine is starting to crack. There is a small split to top edge of rear of spine. The paper to boards is worn and dulled and there are a couple of surface chips. Corners hint bumped and chipped. Extremities scuffed and chipped. Internally there are more recent endpapers to front and rear, the front of which has bookplate (John Barton, Tolle Legge), and some ink numbers. The first four or so leaves are torn, very grubby, stained with tears, chips and repairs, some ink marks, scribbles and odd ink word. Last leaf torn and grubby. Lacking prelims, plus a further 7 leaves (see below), plate, portrait and advert leaf to rear (see details below). Grubby, heavier in places. Scattered pale foxing. Some ink smudges and the occasional word. Contents are beginning to crack in places. In very readable condition.

[4] * xiii-xliv, i-x, 1-186 * 191-408 * 413-458 *463-484 * 487-546
Lacking *, plus advert leaf to rear, portrait, folding plate and prelims

Important and influential political treaties.

James Harrington (1611-1677) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism. He is best known for his controversial publication The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656). This work was an exposition of an ideal constitution, a utopia, designed to facilitate the development of the English republic established after the regicide, the execution of Charles I in 1649.
The work was seized when passing through the press. Harrington, however, managed to secure the favour of Cromwell's favourite daughter, Elizabeth Claypole. The work was restored to him, and appeared in 1656, newly dedicated to Cromwell. It was to have great influence on English, American and French radicals throughout the eighteenth century.

FIRST EDITION of the works of Harrington.

John Toland (1670 – 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment.

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