[HUME, DAVID]. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. London: n.p., 1779.
SECOND EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (22 x 13.5 x 2 cm); pp. 264. English text. Attractively bound in contemporary half calf; marbled paper-covered boards; smooth spine with gilt bands and black morocco lettering-piece. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the joints and hinges intact, the covers very well-preserved. Contents with some very light toning and foxing, the title with a small, discrete corner repair, I⁴ with a small closed tear to the fore edge. Provenance: George Lennard Austen's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A handsome copy.
Notes: An excellent copy of this landmark philosophical work by the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume; this second edition published posthumously in 1779, the same year as the first publication. The book is a fictionalised, witty debate exploring whether human reason, without religious revelation, can establish the existence and nature of God.
