The present edition has been reprinted from a copy of the first issue, and the proofs have been read with a second copy of the same issue lent by Prof. Sorley, to whom, and to Dr Henry Jackson and to Mr W. Aldis Wright, thanks are due for the loan of copies. For convenience of reading, the old type-forms of j, s, u, m, etc., have been made uniform with those in general modern use; but, in accordance with the intention of the series of CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS, of which this is the first volume, neither the spelling (including the use of capitals and italics) nor the punctuation has been altered, save as specified below. Effect has been given to the list of errata printed below the Contents, and many other obvious printers' errors have also been corrected, not given in that list: the places where these corrections have been made are indicated in the text by the insertion of square brackets. A few errors in punctuation have been altered without the use of square brackets: a list of these is given in the footnote to this page1. 1 p. 31, a full stop has been supplied after 'Mind' in the side-note. p. 37, 1 36, a full stop takes the place of a comma. P. 49, last line, a parenthesis has been supplied before 'Mark.' p. 103, 1 21, a full stop takes the place of a comma, p. 123, a full stop has been supplied after 'Subject' in the sidenote. p. 135,16, a full stop takes the place of a comma. p. 136, l. 10, a full stop takes the place of a comma. p. 153, 1. 8, a full stop takes the place of a comma. p. 185, 1. 27, a comma takes the place of a full stop after 'opinion.' p. 195, an asterisk has been supplied before Deut. 11. 19.' p. 234, l. 34, a full stop takes the place of a comma after ‘Infusion.' p. 252, 1. 5, commas take the place of a semicolon and a full stop after 'Agriculture' and Fishing' respectively. p. 279, l. 1, a full stop has been supplied after 'end.' p. 292, 1. 34, a parenthesis has been supplied before Exod.' p. 294, 1. 13, a parenthesis has been supplied before 'Pet.' p. 306, l. 8, a bracket has been supplied after 'Heb. 11. 3.' p. 347, l. 1, a parenthesis has been inserted before 'as.' p. 357, l. 10, a parenthesis has been inserted after 'Cæsar.' p. 366, 1. 5, a full stop has been deleted after 'Princes.' p. 389, 1. 27, a parenthesis has been deleted after 'done.' p. 396, l. 37, a parenthesis has been deleted after 'remained.' p. 493, l. 31, a parenthesis has been supplied after the reference. NOTE The alterations in square brackets, other than simple printers' errors, which seem to deserve being recorded are thus : p. 1, l. 34, 'an' is supplied from the later impressions: it is lacking in the first issue. p. 37, l. 1, in some of the early copies the full stop is, erroneously, inserted after 'Deliberation' instead of after 'from. p. 38, 1. 24, some copies of the later issues read will not be for that it has been.' p. 331, l. 22, ‘of' is supplied from the later impressions. p. 422, l. 4, the first, and some of the second, issues read, 'own Town.' p. 524, 1. 30, 'of' is supplied from the later issues. On pp. 304 et seq. the use of square brackets instead of parentheses for the Scripture references is a peculiarity of the original issues and not an innovation in the present edition. It will be noted that in the pagination of the folio (indicated in the following pages in square brackets) pp. 247 and 8 are duplicated, and that the next page to 256 is numbered 261. Pp. 84, 332 and 388 are blank. The folding plate inserted to face p. 40 in the folio will be found printed as a page of the following text on p. 53. The headlines in the original issues are in italic capitals, followed by a full stop: the turn-over words at the foot of the page have not been reproduced in the present edition. Most of the folios examined measure 11 × 74 inches but a copy in the Cambridge University Library (Syn. 3. 65. 1) measures 13×9 inches. A copy written on vellum, originally presented to Charles II. is now in the British Museum, Egerton MSS. 1910. The book having been condemned by Parliament in 1666,) copies had risen considerably in price by 1668. On the 3rd of September in that year Pepys writes (ed. Wheatley, 1896, Vol. VIII.): 'Calling on several businesses, and particularly my bookseller's, among others, for "Hobbs's Leviathan," which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 245. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again.' Hobbes issued in 1668 a modified Latin version of Leviathan, at Amsterdam, and a Dutch translation appeared in 1667. The Latin version has three Appendixes, in place of A Review, and Conclusion,' entitled 'De Symbolo Niceno,' ' De Hæresi,' and 'De quibusdam Objectionibus contra Leviathan.' It has also an Index raisonné. In the hope that it may be of use, a brief Index of persons and places other than Scriptural has been added at the end of the volume. A list will also be found there of readings different from the accepted text noticed in a copy of the later issue spoken of above. The more interesting and important of these are the substituted phrases and omissions on pp. 335, 336, 354, 464 and 465. Cambridge, January 15, 1904. A. R. W. |