Accession number
PML 37248
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
Londra : G. Billio, 1618.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
Dedication signed: Tobia Mathei.
Translation of the Essays and De sapientia veterum. Attribution of the translation to Tobie Mathew is unsubstantiated. Cf. R. W. Gibson. Francis Bacon; a bibl., 1950, p. 35.
Third ed. in Italian (STC 1154).
Dedication "A Don Cosimo de' Medici gran duca di Toscana" signed Tobia Mathei.
Signatures: [symbol]⁸, A-F⁸, G⁴; [symbol]⁸ a blank missing, G4 a blank and present; second alpabet AI⁸, K4; A2 missigned G2, I2 signed I--compare this collation with the two given in White Catalogue, p. 7.
Translation of the Essays and De sapientia veterum. Attribution of the translation to Tobie Mathew is unsubstantiated. Cf. R. W. Gibson. Francis Bacon; a bibl., 1950, p. 35.
Third ed. in Italian (STC 1154).
Dedication "A Don Cosimo de' Medici gran duca di Toscana" signed Tobia Mathei.
Signatures: [symbol]⁸, A-F⁸, G⁴; [symbol]⁸ a blank missing, G4 a blank and present; second alpabet AI⁸, K4; A2 missigned G2, I2 signed I--compare this collation with the two given in White Catalogue, p. 7.
Description
[14], 102; 150, [2] p. ; 16 cm
Provenance
P.A. Hanrott; with the book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 29); Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Brown maroon morocco, gilt with crest of P.A. Hanrott.
Classification
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