John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings

• Introduction; Locke's Essay and its manuscript sources; The contents of drafts; The production of this volume; The manuscript sources of the texts; History of the manuscripts; Previous publications; The editorial principles of this edition; The text: Draft A; Draft B contents; Draft B; Appendices: Comparative table of draft A and the Essay; Comparative table of draft B and the Essay; The allograph copy of draft A; The editorial method of Peter Nidditch

'The editorial work here has been done in exemplary fashion. Nidditch's aim was to provide a perspicuous representation both of the form and of the content of the text being edited, thus meeting the disparate and indeed often conflicting needs of the paleographical scholar and the reader interested in the author's opinions. There is no doubt that Nidditch has, with Rogers's help, succeeded admirably in realizing this double objective in the case of Locke's drafts.'Vere Chappell, University of Massachusetts, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, June 1992