£7,500
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Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1693. First edition, issue with 'patronage' spelt correctly on A3 verso, and A2 verso, 3rd line 'defer' spelt with one r, 8vo, [viii], 262. [2], contemporary panelled calf, head of spine worn, foot of spine neatly repaired, bookplate of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) as bishop of Salisbury pasted to verso of title-page, inscribed on front free endpaper 'R. Binning, this book was given me by Gilbert Burnet at Barnet 1721' (Bishop Burnet's son was also called Gilbert, his dates 1690-1726), slight stain to imprint on title-page
Note: A major association copy of Locke's treatise on educational theory, with the bookplate of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), historian and bishop of Salisbury, and a later inscription recording the book's subsequent presentation by Gilbert Burnet the younger, himself a writer of note on religious and moral subjects.
Burnet's writings on Latitudinarianism were an influence on Locke in his writings on toleration. His Discourse of the Pastoral Care is favourably mentioned in Locke's Third Letter for Toleration, where Burnet himself is described as 'a very knowing bishop of our church'.
There may be a connection between the eventual recipient of the work and Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697-1732), son of the sixth earl of Haddington, who lived at East Barnet.