Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 644 pages. These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.