The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume II: 1660-1679

Noel Malcolm is the political columnist on the Daily Telegraph, and is well-known for his work on the current Balkan crisis. He was formerly Political Correspondent, and then Foreign editor, on the Spectator (1987-1991), which he joined after giving up his teaching fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As well as working as one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, he has contributed to many collective volumes, including the chapter Hobbes and Spinoza in The Cambridge History of Political Thought (CUP, 1991), and is author of De Dominis (1560-1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic (Strickland & Scott, 1984).

These volumes are a tour de force of scholarly care and are preliminary to a full modern biography for which they whet the appetite ... Malcolm has maintained original spelling, erasures, alterations and punctuation and noted all signs of blots and blemishes.