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The essayes or covnsels, civill and morall, / of Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscovnt St. Alban.

Accession number
PML 37215
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed by Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
[STC 1148 designated as 12th ed., 2nd issue].
"Photostat facsimile [negative] reproduced fro the copy in the Henry E. Huntington library."
The first complete edition, containing 58 essays.
Twelfth ed.-2nd issue - omitting R. Whitaker's name in the imprint (STC 1148) - also First complete ed. (White Catalogue, p. 6).
Contains 58 essays.
Signatures: A⁴, a², B-Z⁴, Aa-Uu⁴, Xx², - A1 blank and present.
Description
340 p. ; 20 x 31 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
A note, on fly-leaf, in the hand of G.W. Steeves reads "The first complete Ed[superscript]n published the year before Bacon's death ..."
Provenance
With the book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 18); Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Old vellum.
Classification
Department