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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 174 x 113 mms., pp. [xxiv], 362 [363 - 366 index, 337 - 338 adverts], fine engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red leather label. A very good to fine copy. The philosopher, poet, and theologian, Henry More (1614 - 1687) was one of England's most eminent philosophers and the most productive of the Cambridge Platonists. He was closely associated with Joseph Glanvill (1636 - 1680) and he edited Sadducismus Triumphatus, the books by which Glanvill is best-known, in 1681. The philosophers Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway and Killultagh (1631 1679) was introduced by her brother, John Finch, to More, and he agreed to become one of her tutors. As a woman, she was not allowed to attend a university, so More tutored her by correspondence: "his early tutorial relationship, which commenced in 1650, subsequently blossomed into a lifelong friendship which afforded Anne intellectual companionship unmatched for a woman of her generation" (ODNB). Seller Inventory # 9816
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