Michael Ayers
Locke: Volume I -- Epistemology; Volume II -- Ontology. 
London: Routledge, 1991. The Arguments of Philosophers. 0415064082 x/341/vi/341 pages.
Two-volume set, each measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spines. Books are in excellent condition, with solid bindings, clean and bright interiors. Dust jackets display light shelfwear. Jackets are preserved in mylar covers.
"John Locke's complex masterpiece, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", was a sustained attack on the dogmatism of his day and one of the last great works of philosophical realism before the onset of idealism in European philosophy. Michael Ayers undertakes a dual task: to reconstruct its meaning as a decisive contribution to 17th-century debates; and to recognize in Locke's arguments, entwined as they are with what is irremediably past, fundamental insights now lost or obscured. The result is both a comprehensive, historically based reinterpretation of the "Essay" and a systematic critique, from a realist point of view, of currently fashionable approaches to epistemology and ontology. This book should be of interest to advanced students and teachers of philosophy and scholars of Locke."