 after 1704
Contents:
Desmaizeaux’s annotated copy of A Letter from a Person of Quality
(late 1710s?)
Location:
British Library, Add. MS. 4224, ff. 228-243.
Description:
In preparation for its inclusion in A Collection of several pieces of Mr. John Locke (1720),
Pierre Desmaizeaux cut the leaves containing A Letter from a Person of Quality out of the 1689 State tracts
and then cut most of the leaves in half horizontally.
These half leaves he then proceeded to annotate, first with corrections based on a collation with the first edition,
then with copies of the second edition.
Publications:
Used in the edition of the Letter in:
An essay concerning toleration and other writings on law and politics, 1667-1683 / John Locke ;
edited with an introduction, critical apparatus, notes and transcription of ancillary manuscripts
by J.R. Milton and Philip Milton. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2006. –
(The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke). – p. 335-376.
Discussions:
Milton & Milton, Introduction to publication #1 above, p. 212-216.
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