Accession number
PML 38673
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed for Humfrey Hooper, 1598.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland R. Redmond, April 22, 1946.
Notes
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet for Humfrey Hooper. 1598.
Third edition, containing 10 essays; the "Meditationes sacrae" are in English; the "Places of perswasion and disswasion" have special divisional t.-p.: Of the colours of good and euill, a fragment.
Third ed. (STC 1138; Pforz. I, 27) - 4 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches.
Dedication signed: Fran. Bacon.
Third edition, containing 10 essays; the "Meditationes sacrae" are in English; the "Places of perswasion and disswasion" have special divisional t.-p.: Of the colours of good and euill, a fragment.
Third ed. (STC 1138; Pforz. I, 27) - 4 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches.
Dedication signed: Fran. Bacon.
Description
[3], 49 leaves ; 13 cm
Provenance
Unrecorded copy; not one of those described in Pforzheimer I, no. 27 and p. XLI; purchased of William H. Robinson, Ltd. who in turn purchased it from a London collector-dealer Clifton, agent for the owner; with the armorial book-plate of Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Light brown morocco, gilt, in 1/2 brown leather case by Duprez Lahey. Booklabels on leather (from earlier binding?) pasted inside front cover.
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