In keeping with a long-standing tradition in this blog, below is the list of books read by yours truly during the past year. As in other years, repeat entries are not mistakes, but rather represent books read more than once this year. Bolded entries denote books I particularly enjoyed.
Otherwise, I have little comment on the list, other than to note the obvious fact that so few of the books listed were written later than the 18th century. I suppose also noteworthy is the relatively concentrated nature of my reading this year (e.g. Pepys, Chandler, Bolingbroke).
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ADAMS, John. Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783. New York: Library of America, 2011.
ADDISON, Joseph. The Freeholder. James Leheny (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
ADDISON, Joseph and Richard STEELE. The Spectator (Vol. IV). Edinburgh: J. and J. Ruthven, 1809.
BACON, Francis. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England. London: Assigns of J. More Esq., 1630 (facsimile, Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969).
BARDACH, Eugene. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (4th edition). London: Sage Publications, 2012.
BECCARIA, Cesare. On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings. Aaron Thomas and Jeremy Parzen (trans.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England (Vol. I). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765 (facsimile, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
BLAKE, Sara. Administrative Law in Canada (5th edition). Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2011.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount. Political Writings. David Armitage (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount. A Collection of Political Tracts. London: T. Cadell, 1788.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount. Historical Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
BURKE, Edmund. Selected Works (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999.
BURKE, Edmund. Selected Works (Vol. III). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999.
BURNET, Gilbert. The History of My Own Times (Vol. I). London: A. Millar, 1753.
BUTLER, Joseph. Five Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel. Stephen L. Darwall (ed.). Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.
[CHANDLER, Richard.] The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons (Vol. II). London: Richard Chandler, 1742.
[CHANDLER, Richard.] The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons (Vol. IV). London: Richard Chandler, 1742.
[CHANDLER, Richard.] The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons (Vol. V). London: Richard Chandler, 1742.
[CHANDLER, Richard.] The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons (Vol. VI). London: Richard Chandler, 1742.
CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (Vol. II, Part I). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1816.
CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (Vol. II, Part II). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1816.
CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book, Entitled Leviathan. Oxford, 1676 (print-on-demand facsimile, EEBO Editions, 2013).
COWPER, William. Poems of William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. (Vol. II). London: J. Johnson, 1800.
CULVERWELL, Nathaniel. An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Robert A. Greene and Hugh MacCallum (eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.
DOLCE, Lodovico. Aretin: A Dialogue on Painting. W. Brown (trans.). London: P. Elmsley, 1770 (facsimile, Menston, UK: Scolar Press, 1970).
ELSTER, Jon. Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
FIELDING, Henry. Jonathan Wild. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
FLETCHER, Andrew. Political Works. John Robertson (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
FORTESCUE, Sir John. On the Laws and Governance of England. Shelley Lockwood (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
FOX, Charles James. A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second. London: W. Miller, 1808.
GIBBON, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. II). New York: Everyman Library, 1993.
GOW, James. War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
GROTIUS, Hugo. The Free Sea. Richard Hakluyt (trans.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004.
GUIZOT, François. The History of Civilization in Europe. William Hazlitt (trans.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013.
HALE, Sir Matthew. The History of the Common Law of England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
HALIFAX, George Savile, Marquess of. Miscellanies, by the Late Right Noble Lord Marquess of Hallifax. London: Matthew Gillyflower, 1700 (facsimile, Farnborough, UK: Gregg International, 1972).
HAMILTON, Alexander, John JAY, and James MADISON. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788 (facsimile, Birmingham, AL: Legal Classics, 1983).
HOBBES, Thomas. A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England. Joseph Cropsey (ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
HOBBES, Thomas. Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right. Alan Cromartie and Quentin Skinner (eds.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.
HOMER. Odyssey (Bks. 1-12). A. T. Murray (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
HUME, David. The History of England (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1983.
JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of Samuel Johnson (Vol. IX). London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., 1823.
KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.
LOCKE, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. Peter H. Nidditch (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
LOCKE, John. Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698 (facsimile, New York: Classics of Liberty Library, 1992).
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò and Francesco GUICCIARDINI. The Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli’s “Discourses” and Guicciardini’s “Considerations”. James B. Atkinson and David Sices (trans.). DeKalb, ILL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002.
MAINE, Henry Sumner. Ancient Law. London: John Murray, 1861.
McDANIEL, Iain. Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
MEADLEY, George Wilson. Memoirs of Algernon Sydney. London: Cradock and Joy, 1813.
PALEY, William. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (Vol. I). London: R. Faulder, 1791.
PALEY, William. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (Vol. II). London: R. Faulder, 1791.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. I: 1660). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). London: G. Bell and Sons, 1970.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. II: 1661). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). London: G. Bell and Sons, 1970.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. III: 1662). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). London: G. Bell and Sons, 1970.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. IV: 1663). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). London: G. Bell and Sons, 1971.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. V: 1664). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). London: G. Bell and Sons, 1971.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. VI: 1665). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. VII: 1666). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. VIII: 1667). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Vol. IX: 1668-9). Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
PETTIT, Philip. On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
PLATO. The Republic (Bks. 1-5). Paul Shorey (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
PLATO. The Republic (Bks. 6-10). Paul Shorey (trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
POPE, Alexander. An Essay on Criticism. London: W. Lewis, 1711 (facsimile, Menston, UK: Scolar Press, 1970).
POPE, Alexander. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. (Vol. V: The Dunciad). London: J. and P. Knapton, 1753.
POPE, Alexander. Letters of Alexander Pope. John Butt (ed.). London: Oxford University Press, 1960.
[PULTENEY, William and Henry St. John, Viscount BOLINGBROKE.] The Craftsman (Vol. III). London: R. Francklin, 1731.
PURI, Poonam et al. Cases, Materials and Notes on Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations (5th edition). Toronto: Carswell, 2011.
ROCHEFOUCAULD, François, Duc de La. Moral Maxims: by the Duke de la Roche Foucault. Translated from the French. With Notes. London: A. Millar, 1749 (reprint, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003).
ROSCOMMON, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of. An Essay on Translated Verse. London: Jacob Tonson, 1695 (facsimile, Menston, UK: Scolar Press, 1971).
SAINT GERMAIN, Christopher. Doctor and Student; or, Dialogues between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student of the Laws of England (17th edition). William Muchall (ed.). London: T. Whieldon, 1787 (facsimile, Birmingham, AL: Legal Classics, 1988).
SCHELLING, Thomas C. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
SCHNEEWIND, J. B. Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
SHAFTESBURY, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of. Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001.
SHEEHAN, Colleen A. James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
SIDGWICK, Henry. The Methods of Ethics. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.
SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (Books I-III). J. C. Smith (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909.
STEELE, Richard and Joseph ADDISON et al. The Tatler (Vol. 3). London: Duckworth, 1899.
TEMIN, Peter. The Roman Market Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
TILLOTSON, John. Several Discourses on the Following Subjects, etc. (Vol. 14). London: Richard Chiswell, 1704.
VATTEL, Emer de. The Law of Nations, or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.
WATSON, Alan. The Evolution of Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
WILSON, James. Collected Works of James Wilson (Vol. I). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. The Blue and Brown Books. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1960.