The life of David Hume, Esq
By: written by himself
Series: Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, in the Strand
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Philosophers; Biography
Notes: In this edition, p. 29, line 3 reads "myself"; in another edition, it reads "himself". Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁸ E⁸(-E8).

Frontispiece portrait engraved by T. Cooke.

Includes a "Letter from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq", giving an account of Hume's last illness (p. [37]-62).

Publisher's advertisements: p. [2] (first count).

"Price 1s. 6d."--Half-title.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 11536.

ESTC T5349

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-EC234.

Gift of George Herbert Palmer, 1919.

inscription on p. [1] partially lost to trimming; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Purchased on April 28, 1923, with the Thomas Hollis Fund.

Number 1 of two titles bound together.

Bound in later half brown morocco and marbled boards, spine stamped in gilt.

Number 1 of four titles bound together.

In CMI case.

Detached board; in CMI case.