The Past Masters British Philosophy 1600-1900 database contains major works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Anne Conway, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, The British Moralists and Adam Smith.

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Transcribed from: Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Novum Organum Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1873 Edited by Thomas Fowler.

Transcribed from: Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon New York : Books for Libraries Press, 1970 Edited by John M. Robertson.

Transcribed from: Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) The Works of Francis Bacon London : Longman's & Co., 1875 Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath.

Transcribed from: Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government London : University of London, The Athlone Press, 1977. edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart.

Transcribed from: Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) A Fragment on Government London : Oxford University Press, 1891 Edited by F.C. Montague.

Transcribed from: Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) A Fragment on Government and An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation / Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1948. Edited by Wilfred Harrison.

Transcribed from: Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation / London : University of London, The Athlone Press, 1970 Edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart.

Transcribed from: Berkeley, George (1685-1753) The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1843 Edited by G.N. Wright.

Transcribed from: Conway, Anne (1631-1679) The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy London : Paternoster Row, 1692 Page numbers in the Past Masters electronic edition refer to the modern edition, edited by Peter Loptson and published by Martinus Nijhoff in the Hague, 1982.

Transcribed from: Hume, David (1711-1776) A Treatise of Human Nature London : Everyman's, 1911 The Past Masters electronic edition of A Treatise of Human Nature has been proofread against the Greene & Grose 1882 edition, and the Selby-Bigge edition has been used to arbitrate the discrepancies.

Transcribed from: Hume, David (1711-1776) The Philosophical Works London, 1886 Edited by Thomas Hill Green and Thomas Hodge Gross. 4. Vols.

Transcribed from: Hume, David (1711-1776) The Philosophical Works of David Hume Edinburgh : A. Black and W. Tait, 1854. The Past Masters electronic edition of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion has used the 1854 edition as the text basis.

Transcribed from: Locke, John (1632-1704> The Works of John Locke London : Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1824 12th edition.

Transcribed from: Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1889 This is an electronic version of the 1889 edition edited by Ferdinand Tönnies. Page numbers in the reference line refer to the Page numbers of the Tönnies 1889 edition.

Transcribed from: Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) The English Works of Thomas Hobbes London : J Bohn, 1839-1845 The electronic versions of Hobbes' Leviathan and De Cive were scanned from the Molesworth edition but proofread against the 1651 "head" edition.

Transcribed from: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) Utilitarianism London : Longman's, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 4th edition.

Transcribed from: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) On Liberty London : Longman's, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 4th edition.

Transcribed from: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) The Subjection of Women London : Longman's, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 1st edition.

Transcribed from: Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) Principles of Political Economy London : Longman's, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 7th edition.

Transcribed from: Ricardo, David (1772-1823) On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1821 3rd edition. The 1821 edition was also the basis for the Cambridge University Press edition of 1953.

Transcribed from: Selby-Bigge, Lewis Amherst (1860-1951) British Moralists Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1897.

Transcribed from: Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900) The Methods of Ethics London : MacMillan, 1907 7th edition.

Transcribed from: Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900) Outlines of the History of Ethics London : MacMillan, 1902 5th edition.

Transcribed from: Smith, Adam (1723-1790) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations New York : Random House, 1937 Edited by Edwin Canaan.

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