This transcription is of the first edition, published in 1748. Hume originally intended the work to replace volume I. of his three volume Treatise on Human Understanding (1739-40), which had attracted little attention. He attributed this lack of response to the manner of the work's delivery rather than its subject matter. The title was changed to the now-familiar Enquiry concerning Human Understanding in a 1757 edition. [Based on A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (1966), by Thomas Edmund Jessop, pp.12-13, 19-20.]
2024Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding1748David Hume (1711-1776)
PHILOSOPHICAL
ESSAYS
CONCERNING
Human Understanding.
By the Author of the
Essays Moral and Political.
LONDON:
Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katharine-Street,
in the Strand. MDCCXLVIII.
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