Leviathan

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Notes

¹On the complicated composition of De Corpore, see Noel Malcolm, ‘The Printing and Editing of Hobbes's De Corpore: A Review of Karl Schuhmann's Edition’, in Luc Foisneau and George Wright (eds), New Critical Perspectives on Hobbes's Leviathan (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2004), pp. 329–57.

²Page references to Leviathan are give to the Molesworth edition in the form EW 3: xxx followed by the corresponding page reference to the Head edition in the form H yyy.

³Many other examples of the Editors' ingenuity could be produced, such as this one. The Egerton manuscript (MS) reads ‘For though the Effect of folly (for Example)’ while the Head edition reads ‘(For example,) Though the effect of folly’. The Editors explain the parentheses as likely being introduced by ‘a sign for inverting’ the phrase ‘for Example’ and mistakenly not removed (1: 81).

⁴Noel Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”: New Light on the Second Edition of Hobbes's Leviathan’, in Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), pp. 341–2.

⁵Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”’, p. 338.

⁶Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”’, pp. 345–6

⁷Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”’, pp. 348.

⁸Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”’, pp. 341–2 and 358.

⁹Cf. Malcolm, ‘The Printing of the “Bear”’, pp. 358–60.

¹⁰The Editors say that small paper copies are about 29.8 cm long. The three copies at the University of Texas are about 27.1, 27.8, and 28.7 cm. The thickness of the paper also varies. Were there, in effect, three or more ‘printings’ of the Head edition?

¹¹The table of the sciences is printed on an oddly shaped piece of broadside paper. It attaches to the binding by a ‘neck’ of paper and the bottom contains the instruction, ‘Place this Table between folio 40. and 41.’ (Cf. 1: 72.)

¹²Part of the research for this review was supported by a travel grant by the Religious Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin.