Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, &c.

Description: Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and other important Subjects. London: J. Woodward, et al., 1748. Volume IV ONLY. Small octavo, contemporary calf. Hinges tender and starting. Some loss to the middle right of the title page. Fifth edition of Trenchard and Gordon's essays—"ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and above Locke as an exposition of the social sources of the threats it faced." The letters had an important influence on many founding fathers and on the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Rare in any early edition. See Google Books for more details on the substance of a similar printing of Volume IV: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cato_s_Letters/DXZEmwIwytwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=cato%27s+letters+iv+woodward&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover

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