Two Treatises of Government

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FOREWORD
(to the Student Edition, 1988)
This is a somewhat reduced version of the scholarly edition
originally published in i960 with a second edition in 1967, latest
printing 1988. Much of the scholarly apparatus has been dropped
here: the lists of books Locke had in his possession at times
relevant to the composition of Two Treatises, the List of Printings,
the Collation, the successive Forewords to successive printings.
All these have been retained in the 1988 printing of the scholarly
edition, to which those to whom final detail is important are
referred.
Advantage has been taken of the appearance of the book in the
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series to
make some alterations not yet present in the scholarly edition.
The extremely small number of errors in Locke’s own text have
been amended, though none of them alters the sense in any
respect. The Introduction, its footnotes and the footnotes to
Locke’s text have been quite extensively corrected, but mainly so
as to take account of work done after the second edition of 1971
until the later 1970s. As far as possible, moreover, all contributions
made since then which touch on the facts about the writing and
publication of Locke’s political work have been taken into
account. The book cannot, however, claim to cover the whole
body of extant scholarship on Locke’s Two Treatises, and for that
reason a list of suggested reading has been added before the
Bibliography. One further addition has been made, an A ddendum to the Introduction commenting on Professor Richard
Ashcraft’s recent attempt to amend in detail the account given
here of the dates of composition and the order in which the First
and Second Treatises were written.
I should like to record my thanks to Dr Zbigniew Rau for his
help with the revisions made to this text. Dr Rau of Lodz
University and sometime Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity
College is the latest of the Cambridge Lockeans, a series which
began in the 1950s.
P.L.
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
March 19 XX

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