The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban / with a table of the colours of good and evil and a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients ; to this edition is added the character of Queen Elizabeth ; never before printed in English.

Accession number

PML 37219

Creator

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Published

London : E. Holt for Henry Herringman, and to be sold by Timothy Childe, 1701.

Credit line

Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.

Notes

At end, 4 l. of advertisement of "Books ... Bart ... London."

Description

3 pts. in 1 v.

Provenance

With book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 25); On t.p. autograph of Robert Travers, of Trinity college, Dublin, 1837; from the collection of Roland Redmond.

Binding

Contemporary calf.

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The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban / with a table of the colours of good and evil and a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients ; to this edition is added the character of Queen Elizabeth ; never before printed in English.