The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. Whereunto is Added the Wisdom of the Antients. Enlarged by the Honourable Author Himself; and Now More Exactly Published. London: Printed for H. Herringman, R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, and R. Bentley, 1691. [together with] The Wisdom of the Ancients. Written in Latin by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, Baron of Verulam, and Lord Chancellor of England. Done Into English by Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight. London: Printed in the Year 1691.
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Provenance:
Ownership inscription of "Arthur Dendy 1830." Blind-stamp reading "Parsons Libraries Purchased. Bookseller Knightsbridge."
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Size: 110 x 170 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(1), A4, B-Z8, 2A-2B8, 2C3, (1)]
[(1), t.p., 6pp., 222pp., 3pp., h.t., 7pp., 28pp., t.p., 10pp., 108pp., pp.101-103, 2pp., (1)].
Contemporary full calf, rubbed and scuffed, small loss of leather to the front board. Lacking tooled label. Front board mostly detached, fragile. Rear board attached with cracked joint and hinge, attached but fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned. Front blank detached but present. Ink inscriptions to front pastedown, slightly offset to verso blank. Blindstamp to front blank. Text block toned with scattered foxing, some marginalia throughout.
The ESTC copy collates [8], 222, [14], 28, [12], 108, 101-103, [5] p. - therefore our copy appears to be lacking the final three pages.
[ESTC: R233477].
