Buy this book on-line Algernon Sidney : Discourses Concerning Government. To which are added, Memoirs of his Life, and an Apology for Himself, Both now first published, and the latter from his original Manuscripts
Early mottled calf boards, sympathetically rebacked in matching calf with gilt lettered crimson morocco label., Very handsome tall wide margin copy, text is clean. , Folio (192 x 330mm): , Frontis, Title Page, The Preface, Memoirs I-xxix, The Apology xxx-lii, Contents, Discourses (3-462) Index (461-495). Advert.
Bookplate with the Birmingham Law Society. Lengthy Informative manuscript note to front free endpaper. Possibly from the library of R. Dodsley poet, dramatist, and bookseller, inscribed to head if front free endpaper `Bot of R,. Dodsley. Jan 7 1750 P. `Titlepage in red and black. Text is continuous despite the pagination. Our copy pagination as ESTC Copy.
ODNB “…It owed much to the high profile given to the Discourses by Sidney’s martyrdom that for subsequent influence in enlightenment Britain, America, The United Provinces, Germany and France he had no Seventeenth-century rival except for John Locke. For modern scholars his claim to a major place among early modern political writers rests upon two foundations. The first, alongside Locke, is as one of the two preeminent seventeen century English resistance theorists, a status underlined by the recovery of the Court Maxims. The other is as most influential of the English republicans. In particular his work exemplifies two features of seventeenth century English republicanism. The first is its debt, within a religious framework to the moral philosophy of Greek antiquity (its Christian humanism). The second is its Machiavellian and Roman militarism…”
Algernon Sydney was an English politician and opponent of King Charles II of England. During the English Civil War, he joined the army of Parliament, but became critical of Oliver Cromwell\'s leadership. He was negotiating with the Dutch and French for support of a republican invasion of England. Following the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy, he went into exile, returning in 1677. In 1683, he was implicated in the Rye House Plot, was found guilty of treason, and was executed.
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