Essays Relating to the Conduct of Life; On various Subjects. Inscrib'd To all Young Gentlemen and Ladies, who are desirous of having a true Knowledge of the World. To which are added, Essays on Musick, Painting and Poetry. And also Select Poems, Tales, Epigrams, Translatons, &c. The Third Edition
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London: Printed by J. Stephens for J. Hooke, at the Flower de Luce...., 1730. 12mo, 162 x 95 mms., pp. [vii], i -i iv [v blank], 172, 8, contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartmenst (but faded and darkened), red leather label (also darkened); slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy. Giles Jacob (bap. 1686, d. 1744) made his reputation as a legal scholar, but he published a number of other works, but he also published a witty work parodying Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; Jacob gave his parody the title The Rape of the Smock. This work is also of some lasting importance for law and legal history. writes, The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism (2010), Gary L. McDowell writes, "The most clearly Lockean work is a small work entitled Essays Relating to the Conduct of Life. In many ways, the Essays is an unremarkable work. But there are two reasons why it is of interest. First, teachings of Jacob seeks to instil through his essays very clearly take their bearings from the ideas one finds in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding and his various tracts on education. The second reasons Jacob's essays are of some interest is the light they shed on his possible motives in publishing his other works, especially his legal compilations and law dictionary." The first edition was published by Curll in 1717, with a total of [[12] + 84 pages, with 21 essays only. This edition adds essays 21-52, "Select poems, tales. .." (including Jacob's poem "Human happiness"), and "The advice of King Stanislaus given to his daughter the Queen of France," which has separate pagination. ESTC states that the title-page is a cancel, but I don't see any obvious stub in this for for a cancellans; copies located in BL; Library of Congress and Illinois. ESTC T67384 locates copies of the 1717 first edition in Brighton Central Library, BL, Cambridge; Folger, Kansas State, Illinois, University of Kansas, and Yale. The BL has a copy of the second edition of 1726, published by J. Cooke.
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- Essays Relating to the Conduct of Life; On various Subjects. Inscrib'd To all Young Gentlemen and Ladies, who are desirous of having a true Knowledge of the World. To which are added, Essays on Musick, Painting and Poetry. And also Select Poems, Tales, Epigrams, Translatons, &c. The Third Edition
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