NMLP P-038056 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

John Locke · Printed by Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset, London · 1690

No book-club apparatus applies to a 1690 folio. The live confusions are the 1694 second and the later 17th- and 18th-century editions offered simply as 'Locke's Essay', and the spelling of the title itself: the first edition reads 'Humane Understanding', while modern editions and translations standardise this to 'Human Understanding' — a useful quick signal that a copy in hand is not the 1690 folio.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038056 for "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding" by John Locke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038056, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).