First edition. 8vo. 80 pp., folding frontispiece facsimile of Hume’s and Lord Kames’s handwriting. Original embossed brown cloth, front cover lettered in gilt (foxing to outer leaves with a few isolated instances of minor spotting to main text; neatly rebacked with the original spine laid-down, corners bumped, withal a good copy). Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1841.
Inscribed by the editor Thomas Murray to the half title: ‘William Oliphant, Senior, Esq. As a mark of sincere Esteem, from the Editor’.