London: William Innys, 1729. Second Edition 8vo  pp. [6], 477pp, [3]pp (Publisher’s advertisement).  full panel calf,  raised bands.  Joints starting to split, binding rubbed top and bottom of spine and corners.

“Peter Browne (1665-1735), Bishop of Cork, became known as a writer for his attack upon Toland’s “Christianity Not Mysterious.” The present work attacks John Locke in his “Essay on Human Understanding” for what Browne termed “sensationalism. “The doctrine of analogy is applied here also. Deals as well with the thinking matter controversy, with our knowledge of body, and our knowledge of self. Browne develops a conception of notions for what he earlier called ‘mediate ideas’.