Accession number
PML 37279.2
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed by T. Newcomb, for George Latham at the Bishops Head in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
Notes
On p. 165-168: In obitum incomparabilis Fransci de Verulamio, etc. (in Latin verse).
Translated from the author's In felicem memoriam Elizabethae.
Double columns.
First ed. in English? (DNB II, 352).
On p. 43-116 with separate t.p.: The apoloby ... in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex.
On p. 117-120: Letter to the most illustrious and most excellent Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwal, Earl of Chester.
On p. 121-156: The Lord Treasurer Burleigh his advice to Queen Elisabeth in matters of religion and state.
On p. 157-158: To the Ld. Bacon then faling from favour (in verse).
On p. 159-164: To my Reverend Friend; Doctor A., by Fra. St. Alban.
Signatures: A⁶, B-H¹²: D4 missigned E4: pagination begins with 1 on B1 and ends with (168) on H12b.
Translated from the author's In felicem memoriam Elizabethae.
Double columns.
First ed. in English? (DNB II, 352).
On p. 43-116 with separate t.p.: The apoloby ... in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex.
On p. 117-120: Letter to the most illustrious and most excellent Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwal, Earl of Chester.
On p. 121-156: The Lord Treasurer Burleigh his advice to Queen Elisabeth in matters of religion and state.
On p. 157-158: To the Ld. Bacon then faling from favour (in verse).
On p. 159-164: To my Reverend Friend; Doctor A., by Fra. St. Alban.
Signatures: A⁶, B-H¹²: D4 missigned E4: pagination begins with 1 on B1 and ends with (168) on H12b.
Description
[12], 168 pages ; 13 cm (12mo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Unidentified inscriptions, dated 1784 on front pastedown and endleaf 1 verso.
Provenance
"Richard Hate his Booke" and Latin inscription signed P. Hall (front endleaf 1 recto); G. Walter Steeves, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's London, 25 May 1916, lot 69; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Binding
17th-century English full brown calf.
Classification
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Department