Anthony Collins, the Man and His Works (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'hstoire Des Idees S.) -- Hardback

It is an attempt to see him in his relationship, intellectual and literary, with the Europe of his day, to gauge his position in the development of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century thought, to examine the origins of his ideas and their effect and to place him in the social context of the England of the early Eighteenth century.