The Nortons’ critical edition of Hume’s Treatise comes seven years after their Oxford Philosophical Text edition of the Treatise and eleven years after their David Hume Library. No Clarendon critical edition of Hume’s History of England is currently planned. Volume 8 will contain the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion together with other posthumous materials, and will likely supplant Norman Kemp Smith’s 1935 Clarendon edition.
Volumes 6 and 7 will comprise Hume’s Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, probably replacing Eugene Miller’s Liberty Classics 1985 edition as the standard. Oxford currently plans to issue Beauchamp’s Clarendon edition of A Dissertation on the Passions and The Natural History of Religion, volume 5 in the series, in late 2007 or early 2008. In 2000, Clarendon released Beauchamp’s critical edition of the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Hume’s first Enquiry (1748), as volume 3 of the series, completing the replacement of the 1975 combined edition. This edition of the second Enquiry, of course, succeeds the 1975 Clarendon edition of Selby-Bigge and Nidditch (SBN). In 1988 Beauchamp published volume 4 of The Clarendon Edition, Hume’s Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). In Beauchamp’s words, “Hume scholars had increasingly begun to appreciate that available editions of Hume’s work were often textually and historically inaccurate, biased in favor of certain textual interpretations, and lacking in basic information essential for scholarly work on the text.” General editors of the series include Tom L. The Clarendon Edition was initiated thirty-two years ago in 1975, the year preceding the bicentennial of Hume’s death. Secondly, and in some ways more extraordinarily, the new Clarendon edition realizes for the first time an approximation of the second edition of the Treatise that Hume himself had planned but never executed. In the first place, it presents the cleanest critical text to date of the Treatise itself, together with the most robust scholarly apparatus available. Norton’s new edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), volumes 1 and 2 of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, establishes a new standard for scholars engaged with that work, in two ways.
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