Elements of Thought or First Lessons in the Knowledge of the Mind including familiar explanations of the terms employed on subjects relating to the intellectual powers Second Edition 1824 – John Dunmore Lang’s copy, Signed by Lang to title page

John Dunmore Lang’s copy of Isaac Taylor’s first book (being the 2nd Ed. 1824), flat-signed by Lang to title page; the text is an exploration of philosophical logic and general philosophical thinking (general notions, abstract notions, analysis/classification etc); Taylor was trained as a draughtsman and engraver, before turning to literature and philosophy; John Dunmore Lang needs little introduction – a legendary figure in 19th-Century Australia, writer, historian, clergyman, educator, and early advocate of an Australian Republic; the book itself is bound in 3/4 calf with gilt titling to spine, marbled boards; tanning to endpapers, scattered foxing (heavy to prelims and title page), G-VG throughout.