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The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things / by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon viscount St Alban.

Accession number
PML 17614
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London, Printed by T. Newcomb, for George Latham, 1651.
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 apology ... 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 Elizabeth 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
6 p., 168 p. on 90 leaves ; 15 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
The name Alfred Johnstone in a contemporary hand on t.p.; bought of Rosenbach, June 1911; "Richard Hatre his Booke" and Latin inscription signed P. Hall on fly-leaf.
Provenance
Alfred Johnstone; with book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 69).
Binding
Contemporary calf in maroon morocco case.
Classification
Department