Elements Thought First Lessons Knowledge by Taylor Isaac Junior (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Disbound. 1st Edition. '.Including Familiar Explanations of the Terms Employed on Subjects Relating to the Intellectual Powers.' 12mo, viii + 208 pp. Inscription on free front end paper. Tight and clean.

half leather marbled boards. Condition: G-VG. John Dunmore Lang's copy of Isaac Taylor's first book (being the 2nd Ed. 1824), flat-signed by Lang to title page; the text is an exploration of philosophical logic and general philosophical thinking (general notions, abstract notions, analysis/classification etc); Taylor was trained as a draughtsman and engraver, before turning to literature and philosophy; John Dunmore Lang needs little introduction - a legendary figure in 19th-Century Australia, writer, historian, clergyman, educator, and early advocate of an Australian Republic; the book itself is bound in 3/4 calf with gilt titling to spine, marbled boards; tanning to endpapers, scattered foxing (heavy to prelims and title page), G-VG throughout. no dustwrapper. 208pp. 12mo. G-VG. …