[HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’ (1723-1789), and Jacques-André-NAIGEON]. Essai sur les préjugé s, ou de l ’ influence des opinions sur les moeurs & sur le bonheur des hommes. Ouvrage contenant l ’ apologie de la philosophie . ‘Londres’ [i.e. Amsterdam: Rey], 1770. First edition, a fine copy, of Holbach’s subversive and instantly famous condemnation of the two enemies of individual freedom: propaganda from all kinds of established authority, and facile acceptance of received opinion – both leading to ignorance, prejudice and error. The Essai , then attributed to Dumarsais, enjoyed Europe-wide popularity as the unintended effect of Frederick of Prussia’s rebuttal in his Examen . In the same year Holbach went on to publish the most radical of his works, the Systeme de la nature , where he expounded the materialism underpinning the Essai ’s attack on religious and political establishments. Tchemerzine, p. 242; Vercruysse, 1770/A2. 12mo (155 x 95mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides filleted in gilt, flat spine gilt with fleurons, gilt lettering-piece, turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance : Robert Hoe III (first President of the Grolier Club, 1839-1909, bookplate) – unidentified more recent bookplate.
[HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’ (1723-1789), and Jacques-André-NAIGEON]. Essai sur les préjugé s, ou de l ’ influence des opinions sur les moeurs & sur le bonheur des hommes. Ouvrage contenant l ’ apologie de la philosophie . ‘Londres’ [i.e. Amsterdam: Rey], 1770. First edition, a fine copy, of Holbach’s subversive and instantly famous condemnation of the two enemies of individual freedom: propaganda from all kinds of established authority, and facile acceptance of received opinion – both leading to ignorance, prejudice and error. The Essai , then attributed to Dumarsais, enjoyed Europe-wide popularity as the unintended effect of Frederick of Prussia’s rebuttal in his Examen . In the same year Holbach went on to publish the most radical of his works, the Systeme de la nature , where he expounded the materialism underpinning the Essai ’s attack on religious and political establishments. Tchemerzine, p. 242; Vercruysse, 1770/A2. 12mo (155 x 95mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides filleted in gilt, flat spine gilt with fleurons, gilt lettering-piece, turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Provenance : Robert Hoe III (first President of the Grolier Club, 1839-1909, bookplate) – unidentified more recent bookplate.
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