The Philosophical Works ... [Bound with:] Letters on the Study and Use of History .. A New Edition Corrected ... [Bound with:] A Letter to Sir William Windham ... [Bound with:] Letters on the Spririt of Patriotism ... [Bound with:] A Dissertation upon Parties by Bolingbroke, Henry St. John - 1777

London, 1777. 8vo. Eighteenth century speckled calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces. Small booklabels on the pastedowns. 8vo. Set of Bolingbroke's Works. [Vols. 1-5] The Philosophical Works. London: David Mallet, 1754-1754-1776-1776-1777. 5 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1. ESTC N20935 (vols. 1-2), N24597 (vols. 3-4) and N24598 (vol. 5). Mixed edition (as often). First published posthumously in 1754, Bolingbroke's Philosophical Works was a favorite of Jefferson, who copied approximately 10,000 words from the work into his Literary Commonplace Book, complied in the 1760s.

[Vol. 6] Letters on the Study and Use of History ... A New Edition. London: T. Cadell, 1770. ESTC T134886. First published in 1752.

[Vol. 7] A Letter to Sir William Windham... London: Printed for the Editor and sold by A. Millar, 1753. ESTC N2688. First edition, with variant imprint.

[Vol. 8] Letters on the Spririt of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of Parties ... A New Edition. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1775. ESTC T107729. First printed in 1749.

[Vol. 9] A Dissertation upon Parties: In Several Letters to Caleb D'Anvers, Esq ... The Tenth Edition. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1775. ESTC T9605. First published in 1735. Adams once wrote of Bolingbroke's Dissertation upon Parties as "this is a jewel, there is nothing so profound, correct, and perfect on the subject of government, in the English or any other language.".