[5] The book, of which the copies are rare (one in Dr Williams's library in London and one in the Bodleian), was printed in quarto size (Paris, 1642), with a pictorial title-page (not afterwards reproduced) of scenes and figures illustrating its three divisions, "Libertas," "Imperium," "Religio." The title _Elementorum philosophiae sectio tertia, De Cive_, expresses its relation to the unwritten sections, which also comes out in one or two back-references in the text. [6] _L.W._ ii. 133-134. In this first public edition (12mo), the title was changed to _Elementa philosophica de cive_, the references in the text to the previous sections being omitted. The date of the dedication to the young earl of Devonshire was altered from 1641 to 1646. [7] Described as "nobilis Languedocianus" in _Vit._; doubtless the same with the "Dominus Verdusius, nobilis Aquitanus," to whom was dedicated the _Exam. et emend. math. hod._ (_L.W._ iv.) in 1660. Du Verdus was one of Hobbes's profoundest admirers and most frequent correspondents in later years; there are many of his letters among Hobbes's papers at Hardwick. [8] _The Human Nature_ corresponds with cc. i.-xiii. of the first part of the original treatise. The remaining six chapters of the part stand now as Part I. of the _De Corpore Politico_. Part II. of the _D.C.P._ corresponds with the original second part of the whole work. [9] At the beginning of this year he wrote and published in Paris a letter on the nature and conditions of poetry, chiefly epic, in answer to an appeal to his judgment made in the preface to Sir W. Davenant's heroic poem, _Gondibert_ (_E.W._ iv. 441-458). The letter is dated Jan. 10, 1650 (1650/1). [10] This presentation copy, so described by Clarendon (_Survey of the Leviathan_, 1676, p. 8), is doubtless the beautifully written and finely bound MS. now to be found in the British Museum (Egerton MSS. 1910). [11] During all the time he was abroad he had continued to receive from his patron a yearly pension of L80, and they remained in steady, correspondence. The earl, having sided with the king in 1642, was declared unfit to sit in the House of Peers, and though, by submission to Parliament, he recovered his estates when they were sequestered later on, he did not sit again till 1660. Among Hobbes's friends at this time are specially mentioned John Selden and William Harvey, who left him a legacy of L10. According to Aubrey, Selden left him an equal bequest, but this seems to be a mistake. Harvey (not Bacon) is the only Englishman he mentions in the dedicatory epistle prefixed to the _De corpore_, among the founders, before himself, of the new natural philosophy. [12] The treatise bore the date, "Rouen, Aug. 20, 1652," but it should have been 1646, as afterwards explained by Hobbes himself (_E.W._ v. 25).